Talk:Extremophiles/@comment-84.3.47.168-20121126202915

Deinococcus radiodurans can be grown in simple TGY medium, and it's aerobic, so you can grow it in a simple Petri-dish in a simple incubator. It is not pathogenic, you do not need any protective gear when handling it. It is quite easy to work with this bacteria, I do not understand why you are witing about "limited research". As the wikipedia article mentiones it was discovered as a microbe contaminating canned food. Furthermore, if you enter its name into a scinetific search engine (For instance: www.pubmed.com) you can see that almost a thousand papers have been written on various aspects of this microbe, so it's pretty well studied.