Yellowstone Managers Stake a Claim on Hot-Springs Microbes

摘要

National parks like Yellowstone may themselves be national treasures, but the government now wants to convert some of their natural riches into working capital and knowledge that will benefit the park, the public, and science. In a meeting here last month that drew representatives of such big biotechnology and pharmaceutical names as Promega, New England Biolabs, Novo Nor-disk, Eli Lilly, and DuPont, Yellowstone National Park managers said they intend to seek a share of commercial profits generated by hot-water microbes, or thermophiles, incubated by the park's bubbling hot springs.