--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.astrobio.net/news/article353.html > > Weizmann Institute scientists have found what makes > the bacterium > Deinococcus radiodurans the most radiation-resistant > organism in the > world: The microbe's DNA is packed tightly into a > ring... > The red bacterium can withstand 1.5 million rads-a > thousand times more > than any other life form on Earth and three thousand > that of humans.
Pretty amazing - and the links from that page are neat too! Which Galactics gengineered this beastie? :) Debbi who prefers to kiss her equines on the nose, thank-you-very-much ;) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
