However, current methods can't distinguish closely related species of extremophiles. So, Ralf Moeller and colleagues investigated whether they could identify an extremophile by using its protein ...

According to their own statements, the project was too expensive for “the television stations”, so ultimately only a pilot program about Ralf Moeller, moderated by Alexandra Klim, was realized.

Therefore, rather than utilizing a gene sequence to identify an extremophile, Ralf Moeller and associates looked into whether they might do so by utilizing its protein signature. Water samples ...