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dotancohenyesterday at 4:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

That is not how spores work.


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cobbzillayesterday at 5:21 PM

It is in fact how Deinococcus radiodurans works:

    Deinococcus radiodurans has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. When damage is apparent to the cell, it brings the damaged DNA into a compartmental ring-like structure where the DNA is repaired, and then is able to fuse the nucleoids from the outside of the compartment with the damaged DNA.
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Andrexyesterday at 4:35 PM

Let the man dream (and possibly write interesting scifi about it).