NSF Grants $22M for 'extreme' microbe lab collaboration

The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea, and Bacteria, or ExFAB, will focus on developing techniques to learn from nature’s more unusual microorganisms. These microbes are considered “extreme” because they have unusual nutritional requirements, grow at extremely high or low temperatures, or grow without oxygen—traits that make them difficult to study with existing laboratory equipment.