Re: [DIYbio] Re: BiohaX - DIYbio video series and kickstarter?

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:34 AM, David Murphy <murphy.david@gmail.com> wrote:
> TIL: that even boiling for hours at 100 degrees centigrade can't kill the
> spores from some bacteria.
> learn something new every day.
>
> I knew there were a few extremophiles but I never realised that there were
> bacteria which could survive boiling water for an extended period of time.

As Cathal said, that's what Tyndallization is for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndallization

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Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics

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