New ice lithography method enables creation of nanoscale patterns on living tardigrades, advancing integration of biological ...

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

If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears ...

Since tardigrades are known for their extreme survival abilities — from boiling heat to the vacuum of space — adapting a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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