Radiation therapy is a powerful tool for fighting cancer, but it comes with painful side effects. About 60% of cancer ...

Guided by their teachers, nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren, ages 7 to 16, helped scientists from the Natural History Museum of Denmark catalog tiny, water-dwelling animals known as tardigrades ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa say the tiny tardigrade, which is found all over our planet, can protect human skin and organs during radiation.

Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are tiny but resilient microorganisms capable of surviving the harshest conditions such as severe drought, radiation, low oxygen ...

When it comes to surviving radiation, tardigrades really know their stuff, shrugging off doses that would annihilate most other life forms. Now researchers are using this knowledge to find ways to ...

Their approach makes use of a protein from tardigrades, often also called "water bears," which are usually less than a millimeter in length. When the researchers injected messenger RNA encoding ...

Their study entitled, “Radioprotection of healthy tissue via nanoparticle-delivered mRNA encoding for a damage-suppressor protein found in tardigrades,” was published in Nature Biomedical ...

The world’s most resilient animal, the microscopic tardigrade, produces a radiation-resisting protein that could revolutionize cancer treatment, according to a new study. Scientists found that ...

Interestingly, some animals naturally withstand extreme conditions—hibernators such as polar bears and rodents preserve muscle strength despite months of inactivity, and tardigrades can survive ...