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Sherman Foo

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Oct 2026

Taking the heat: Breaking the temperature limits of eukaryotic life.

What's the highest temperature at which complex life can grow? It's an old question. Here, Rappaport and colleagues describe a thermophilic amoeba that breaks the previous record, which was set at ∼60°C, and suggest the beginnings of an answer to what innovations enable this organism to take the heat.

Yin-Wei Kuo, Sherman Foo, B. Baum · 0 citations

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