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Deinococcus: Conan the Bacterium Wiki Spam
While a dose of 10 Gy of ionizing radiation is sufficient to kill a human, and a dose of 60 Gy is sufficient to kill all cells in a culture of E. coli, D. radiodurans is capable of withstanding an instantaneous dose of up to 5,000 Gy with no loss of viability, and an instantaneous dose of up to 15,000 Gy with 37% viability. A dose of 5,000 Gy is estimated to introduce several hundred complete breaks into the organism's DNA.

Applications:

Using genetic engineering Deinococcus has been used for bioremediation to consume and digest solvents and heavy metals, even in a highly radioactive site. The bacterial mercuric reductase gene has been cloned from Escherichia coli into Deinococcus to detoxify the ionic mercury frequently found in radioactive waste generated from nuclear weapons manufacture.[13] Those researchers developed a strain of Deinococcus that could detoxify both mercury and toluene in mixed radioactive wastes.

The Craig Venter Institute has used a system derived from the rapid DNA repair mechanisms of D. radiodurans to assemble synthetic DNA fragments into chromosomes, with the ultimate goal of producing a synthetic organism they call Mycoplasma laboratorium.[14]

In 2003, U.S. scientists demonstrated that D. radiodurans could be used as a means of information storage that might survive a nuclear catastrophe. They translated the song It's a Small World into a series of DNA segments 150 base pairs long, inserted these into the bacteria, and were able to retrieve them without errors 100 generations later. (generations in terms of the bacteria)[15]
>> Anonymous
cool
what the fuck are you talking about
>> Mr. Bubbles !!DLJ3bQ7yunJ
That fucker is why I became a microbiologist. He laughs at your feeble nuclear missles.
>> Anonymous
>>287622
Bacteria capable of withstanding 50x an ionizing radiation dose that can kill a human.
>> Anonymous
mah strain of influenza plays Beethoven's 7th symphony, what does yours play?
>> Anonymous
>In 2003, U.S. scientists demonstrated that D. radiodurans could be used as a means of information storage that might survive a nuclear catastrophe. They translated the song It's a Small World into a series of DNA segments 150 base pairs long, inserted these into the bacteria, and were able to retrieve them without errors 100 generations later. (generations in terms of the bacteria)

/r/ human zygote with "born to be wild" inserted into it.
>> Anonymous
>>Using genetic engineering Deinococcus has been used for bioremediation to consume and digest solvents and heavy metals, even in a highly radioactive site. The bacterial mercuric reductase gene has been cloned from Escherichia coli into Deinococcus to detoxify the ionic mercury frequently found in radioactive waste generated from nuclear weapons manufacture.[13] Those researchers developed a strain of Deinococcus that could detoxify both mercury and toluene in mixed radioactive wastes.

Awesome! Here you go, your toxic radioactive mercury waste is now less toxic!

Also: "detoxify mercury"? Wat
>> Anonymous
>>287635
>x500
fixed.
>> Anonymous
These little fuckers are amazing. I don't know how they evolved themselves into such a super monster but man, I'm jealous of them. This little baby will be a hot topic in the future for sure.
>> Anonymous
>>287649
They can't actually remove it, so they turn it into more harmless forms.
>> Anonymous
>>287646

Pure sodium is dangerously explosive, but combine it with chlorine and you get table salt. Chlorine by itself is dangerous, too.
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From Wikipedo:

Radiation — as shown by Raul M. May from the University of Paris, tardigrades can withstand 5,700 grays or 570,000 rads of x-ray radiation. (Ten to twenty grays or 1,000–2,000 rads could be fatal to a human). The only explanation thus far for this ability is that their lowered hydration state provides fewer reactants for the ionizing radiation.