Deinococcus radiodurans radiation-resistant

The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is able to resist intense ionizing radiation (500,000 3 million rad).126 A human would die with less than 500 rad. This tolerance may have resulted from evolution to resist severe dehydration. Plants that have evolved to be dried down, then re-... 

Stem cells, haploid germ cells, somatic cells, transformed cells. The ancient unicellular life forms survived under the most adverse conditions in a chemically hostile, overheated (boiling water pouring lava volcanic fumes), chemically imbalanced as to excessive acidity or alkalinity, and heavily radioactive environment. The y-rays-irradiated but radiation-resistant Deinococcus radiodurans (Figure 4) suffers genomic damage it is its chaperone proteins in its proteome that perform the rescue of the genome (Mediterranean Instimte for Life Sciences, Split, Croatia). 

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