Yellowstone National Park has some of the most extreme environments in the world. What better place to look for extremophiles! Extremophiles are viruses that actually live and THRIVE within the intense heat of the thermal geysers and acidic pools. What do viruses do? Trevor Douglas, PhD says this, "It transports something from a to b, gets into a cell (and) takes it over. It's a little machine. And what we want to do is take that little machine and manipulate it to do things that are good things."
Things like chemotherapy directly applied to the cancer cells, computer memory so huge that at the size of a matchbox it will hold 6 months of constantly playing music!
Here is a video on the Wired Science Pilot Episode that shows some of the amazing things they plan to use these viruses for.
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