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Thursday, July 23, 2020
How Extremophile Bacteria Living In Nuclear Reactors Might Help Us Make Vaccines
How Extremophile Bacteria Living In Nuclear Reactors Might Help Us Make Vaccines: Extremophiles like the bacterium D. radiodurans that can withstand levels of radiation thousands of times what most animals can, are able to help us make vaccines faster, cheaper and safer. They use special molecular protectors to shield their repair proteins but not their DNA or RNA.
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