Is it possible to create an organism that is completely immune to radiation?

Radiation is the ultimate bane of all organic life. Its particles punch holes in our DNA, causing mutations and giving us cancer. But, is there a way to make an organism that is unable to get radiation poisoning?

I don't want it to have something like the Tardigrade's tun, in which it dehydrates itself and becomes immortal, or some kind of lead scales that block the radiation.

I mean that the organism itself has some kind of natural process or characteristic that resists the effects of radiation entirely. As in, if a chunk of uranium was shoved inside its body, it would suffer no ailments whatsoever (aside from the ailments one would expect from having a large foreign object lodged in your flesh).

It wouldn't have to be an evolved trait, the creature in question could be a genetically modified organism.

Is this possible, or does radiation and life simply not mix?

posted almost 5 years ago

Cobbington‭

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