zidane1strife
Banned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
Since I first heard of it, I've found it's abilities and resistances to be awe-inspiring. I've been wondering whether or not it would be possible to actually engineer a similar resistance into multi-cellular eukaryotic organisms, like us.
Just imagine, even a nuclear war would be unable to wipe us out, provided we and several organisms(plants, and animals) for sustainance are engineered like this. ( That is radioactive waste would no longer be of concern to us... heheh)
In any case such an organism is of unbelievable importance, and should be extremely studied, for it's dna repairing abilities might yield the key to allowing for virtually-zero mutation cellular division(useful for gm bacteria, and for battling aging, and useful for building nano-bots with a system akin to that of biological organism..)
editedii
Since I first heard of it, I've found it's abilities and resistances to be awe-inspiring. I've been wondering whether or not it would be possible to actually engineer a similar resistance into multi-cellular eukaryotic organisms, like us.
Just imagine, even a nuclear war would be unable to wipe us out, provided we and several organisms(plants, and animals) for sustainance are engineered like this. ( That is radioactive waste would no longer be of concern to us... heheh)
In any case such an organism is of unbelievable importance, and should be extremely studied, for it's dna repairing abilities might yield the key to allowing for virtually-zero mutation cellular division(useful for gm bacteria, and for battling aging, and useful for building nano-bots with a system akin to that of biological organism..)
editedii
http://deinococcus.allbio.org/