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Cells have long experience of dealing with UVC light

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In his News and Views article “Device physics: A bug-beating diode” (Nature 441, 299; 2006) describing the development of UVC-emitting diodes that promise to have major practical applications, Asif Khan states: “Earth's ozone layer completely blocks solar light of very low ultraviolet wavelengths. Biological organisms on Earth have therefore never developed a tolerance for this 'UVC' radiation, and artificially generated UVC light has become a useful tool in the treatment and destruction of bacteria, yeast, viruses and fungi.”

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Cleaver, J. Cells have long experience of dealing with UVC light. Nature 442, 244 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/442244b

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