Resistance to Radiation
- 24 November 1995
- journal article
- perspectives
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 270 (5240), 1318
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.270.5240.1318
Abstract
The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive extremely large doses of radiation without mutagenesis. Daly and Minton suggest how this organism repairs its radiation-damaged DNA so efficiently and why such a system may have evolved.Keywords
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