NIH-supported researchers have developed a new method using a protein from tardigrades to help protect healthy tissue during ...

Dating back to the Cambian era, 530 million years ago, tardigrades are aquatic eight-legged micro-animals of less than a millimetre in length, typically 500 microns. They have most of the organs ...

Scientists are just starting to understand the tardigrade. It can survive boiling water, outer space, and extreme radiation. Following is a transcript of the video. This funny looking little guy ...

It's thought that tardigrades first appeared before the Cambrian, which is around 541 million years ago. To survive that long ...

FILE - A model tardigrade is seen in a display case at ... be severe enough to stop patients from completing the therapy," Dr. James Byrne of the University of Iowa told the NIH.

A protein found in tardigrades — tiny animals less than a millimeter long — can protect mice from radiation damage. Most cancer patients undergo radiation therapy as part of their treatment ...

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

1. Tardigrades are microscopic creatures with many nicknames. The name Tardigrade means “slow moving” and refers to their bear-like crawling movement. Their movement and appearance has also gi ...

When the German zoologist Ephraim Goeze first recognized, described, and named the kleiner Wasserbär (“Little Waterbear”) in 1773, he could not yet have guessed that he had found the Chuck Norris of ...

Scientists have found that tardigrade proteins can slow down metabolism in human cells, an advance that could one day lead to technologies that slow the ageing process. Tardigrades, or water bears ...

Researchers from BioBright describe Tardigrade as dynamically recompiling itself based on the environment, thereby constantly changing signatures. If that sounds a little too breathless and ...

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 ...