The water is believed to be blushing because it is chock full of Halobacterium. The Pepto-Bismol color is caused by the carotenoids producing pigments within the cellular membrane.

In the early 1970s, Dieter Oesterhelt detected retinal in the cell membrane of the archaebacterium Halobacterium salinarum. As a component of the protein rhodopsin, retinal is involved in the visual ...

By using lasers to etch data onto microbial proteins, researchers at the University of Connecticut may have demonstrated a way to produce rewritable holographic memory. Holographic memory stores ...