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 | | He suggested that a seven-year duration for ERATO projects would be better and that an ERATO home laboratory would be advantageous, since at present, each project undergoes a year start-up, which he felt was unnecessary. |
 | | This is the extension of Horikoshi’s original ERATO project, with the addition of hyperthermophiles, bacteria that grow at temperatures of 110-140 or 150oC under high pressure; psychrophiles, bacteria that grow at very low temperatures (this, of course, is a characteristic of the deep sea); and barophiles, bacteria that grow only with hydrostatic pressure. |
 | | That seems to be a shortcoming, and it may well be a shortcoming of the ERATO projects in general, at least of the older ones, not to have a capacity for cultivating the next head or director from within the group. |
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