The Puna Bio Series A round is the Gates Foundation's first investment in an Argentina-based startup, and will fuel ...

Tiny extremophiles give the salty lakes their rosy hue, but over-mining and climate change are threatening their existence.

Extremophiles, as their name suggests, are organisms that can live in extreme conditions, many of which are inhospitable for other terrestrial organisms. These fascinating organisms have been ...

But extremophiles have adapted: Here, they don’t use photosynthesis, since there’s no sunlight. Instead, they draw carbon dioxide directly from the mineral-rich vent water, ...

Puna Bio, which raised a $3.7 million seed round, captures and cultivates these extremophiles, putting them to work in milder climates where their plant-aiding processes ...

Aptly dubbed extremophiles, they have numerous scientists asking how, and what, they can learn from these remarkable organisms. The temperatures and conditions where extremophiles exist mimic ...

Learning more about how these extremophiles survive in hostile conditions could inform scientists about life on Earth and potential life on other planets. In ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research, ...

Extremophiles Could Help Crops Thrive in Depleted Soils . Sandy Ong Wired UK October 22, 2023 Ben Stubbs La Puna, a high-altitude plateau straddling Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, is not for the faint ...

'Extremophiles' can survive in space "Our study aimed to understand the risk of extremophiles being transferred in space missions and to identify which microorganisms might survive the harsh ...

Scientists are studying whether Earth’s oldest lifeforms, such as extremophiles and ancient microbes, could survive on other planets. These organisms have thrived in harsh conditions for ...