1 | Computer artwork of Enterococcus faecalis bacteria. | |
2 | This is derived from an organism, deinococcus radiodurans, that can take three million rads of radiation and not be killed. | |
3 | Incredibly, the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand about 2000 times the dose of ionising radiation that would kill a human, making it the most radiation-resistant organism known. |