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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Deinococcaceae —bacteria highly resistant to environmental hazards.
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Examples
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Take an extremophile known as Deinococcus peraridilitoris as an example.
Levi Novey: How Extremophiles Might Help Us Save the World 2009
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These all-star scientists have now used an extremophile known as Deinococcus radiodurans to produce infrared light producing proteins that could be used more effectively to study processes occurring in living cells, and in fact "lighting up entire organisms as completely as GFPs have individual cells."
Levi Novey: How Extremophiles Might Help Us Save the World 2009
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There's an organism called Deinococcus radiodurans that can take three millions rads of radiation.
Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life 2008
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There's an organism called Deinococcus radiodurans that can take three millions rads of radiation.
Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life 2008
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There's an organism called Deinococcus radiodurans that can take three millions rads of radiation.
Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life 2008
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There were traces of viral activity in my DNA, which had modified the genetic information there, leaving sequences which had some correlation with the genes of Deinococcus and the tardigrades and so forth.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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There were traces of viral activity in my DNA, which had modified the genetic information there, leaving sequences which had some correlation with the genes of Deinococcus and the tardigrades and so forth.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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You have a mechanism which I suspect is rather like that of the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans with the capability of repairing cellular damage, even recovery of damaged DNA strands.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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Earth is filled with incredibly strange creatures, from thermophiles like the one seen here that can survive in temperatures up to 121 degress Celsius to the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans that thrives in 2000 times more ionising radiation than would fry a human.
Boing Boing 2008
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You have a mechanism which I suspect is rather like that of the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans with the capability of repairing cellular damage, even recovery of damaged DNA strands.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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