Tag: Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria

"Conan" can keep its lineage alive for 280 million years in a barren extraterrestrial world with temperatures of -80 degrees Celsius, lying 10 meters beneath the surface. A team of ...

Can a humble bacterium hold the key to surviving cosmic radiation?The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is considered the only organism with the extraordinary ability to restore a shattered genome into thousands ...