A RAY OF HOPE!

 

 

While a minuscule dose of 10 Gray (Gy) is lethal for a human being, this one loses only 37% of its viability when exposed to a monstrous 15,000 Gy! It is the polyextremophile bacteria called the Deinococcus radiodurans that can survive many extreme conditions parcelled together. This knowledge has led researchers to believe that the day is not far when safer and more viable methods of radioactive therapy and cleanup of radioactive wastes would be available as easily as an antiseptic lotion!