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Radiation-resistant bacteria may clean up the nation’s worst waste sites

Scientists explore how a hardy bacterium resists gene damage and begin designing genetically engineered bacteria to rescue sites laced with radioactive material.

References:

Lange, C.C., L.P. Wackett, K.W. Minton, and M.J. Daly. 1998. Engineering a recombinant Deinococcus radiodurans for organopollutant degradation in radioactive mixed waste environments. Nature Biotechnology 16(October).

Further Readings:

Hendrickson W. 1998. Teaching an old bug new tricks. Nature Biotechnology 16(October):910.

Travis, J. 1997. Long-awaited bacterial genome debuts. Science News 151(Feb. 8):84.

Sources:

John R. Battista
Louisiana State University
Department of Microbiology
Division of Genetics & Molecular Biology
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Michael J. Daly
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Department of Pathology
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Room B3153
Bethesda, MD 20814

Marvin Frazier
Department of Energy
Microbial Genome Program
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
Germantown, MD 20874-1290

Owen White
Institute for Genomic Research
9712 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12, 1998, p. 376.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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