Showing posts with label deinococcus radiodurans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deinococcus radiodurans. Show all posts

Sunday, July 04, 2010

Sunday Extremophile Blogging: Deinococcus Radiodurans

The toughest of them all. Will sustain a radiation dose between 5 and 15 thousand times higher than the dose that would kill a human being, and repair its own radiation-damaged DNA. (Perhaps life travels like this between the stars).