# Life On The Edge

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- Authors: [Michael Joseph Gross](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-joseph-gross)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-01-25

## Description

Can life exist in the Antarctic ice, in the deep subsurface, in dilute sulfuric acid, in hot springs-even on Mars? What degree of high or low temperature, pressure, or salt concentration can living cells tolerate? In recent years, scientists have discovered many single-cell creatures that exist in-in fact, are perfectly adapted to-extreme environments that were considered uninhabitable just one or two decades ago. In Life on the Edge , author Michael Gross explores how microorganisms adapt to their hostile environments and how they affect our current definition of the " normal" conditions for life. He also describes the vast implications of these extremophiles and other amazing creatures-from potential breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology to the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

## Editions

### Life On The Edge

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-07-3820-445-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2001-01-25
- Language: en_GB