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Review
. 2000 Jun;11(3):280-5.
doi: 10.1016/s0958-1669(00)00096-3.

Engineering radiation-resistant bacteria for environmental biotechnology

M J Daly  1
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Engineering radiation-resistant bacteria for environmental biotechnology

M J Daly. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2000 Jun.

Abstract

Seventy million cubic meters of ground and three trillion liters of groundwater have been contaminated by leaking radioactive waste generated in the United States during the Cold War. A cleanup technology is being developed based on the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans, which is being engineered to express bioremediating functions.

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