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Re: New radiation survival champ



At 10:36 PM 11/24/99 -0500, Larry Cartwright wrote about a "new" radiation
survival champ:
(TIGR), a DOE-funded
not-for-profit enterprise, has a strain of bacteria that can remain
alive following 1.5 MEGARADS of gamma irradiation
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/11/991123080430.htm

This critter is not new; it has been studied since the 1950s. And it
doesn't come from or belong to TIGR. A search for "Deinococcus
radiodurans" turns up over 500 hits. For instance there's a nice article at

http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/12_12_98/Bob1.htm

TIGR announced a year ago that they had sequenced the critter's
genome. Apparently it took a year for the writeup to get published in
Science, which I guess is why it hit the news again just now.