Discover tardigrades, tiny 'water bears' famous for survival. Learn how they endure extreme cold, heat, and space by drying ...

2. Most are transparent so you can see their internal organs. Tardigrades have “stylets” which they use to pierce plant cells or animal body walls. Many species feed on bacteria or plant cells ...

The researchers hypothesized that delivering the protective tardigrade mRNA to tissues before radiation therapy could prompt cells to temporarily express Dsup, safeguarding DNA during treatment.

Mice with cells engineered to produce a protective protein unique to tardigrades experienced reduced radiation damage, researchers report February 26 in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Radiation ...

Tardigrades, microscopic organisms renowned for their extraordinary resistance to radiation, may offer a means to protect ...

a process that puts tardigrades into a “tun state,” slowing their metabolism practically to a complete standstill, reducing their need for oxygen, and replacing the water in their cells with ...

Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss ... encoding this protein and found that it produced enough to safeguard cells’ DNA from radiation-induced damage. “Radiation can be very helpful ...

“They also have a large suction pharynx, which they use to suck out whatever fluids they can get out of the cells that they penetrated.” In appearance some tardigrades look like bears and are ...

One study in particular presented how the study of tardigrades could help address ... protecting against extreme cold in human cells, and engineering crops to survive in extreme climates.

A protein from tardigrades, called Dsup, may shield healthy cells from radiation damage Scientists used nanoparticles to deliver mRNA instructions for producing Dsup in mice Treated cells showed ...