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Science 24 November 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5240, p. 1318
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5240.1318
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Perspectives

Michael J. Daly, Kenneth W. Minton

The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive extremely large doses of radiation without mutagenesis. Daly and Minton suggest how this organism repairs its radiation-damaged DNA so efficiently and why such a system may have evolved.

The authors are in the Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799, USA.


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