The budding scientists collected the tiny water bears in a massive citizen science project that involved almost 30,000 ...

SEM Micrograph of a water bear, Tardigrade (Getty Images/Cultura RM Exclusive/Gregory S. Paulson)Technically, tardigrades are not extremophiles, because while they can survive conditions that ...

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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 ...

Boosting cells with a tardigrade protein reduced DNA damage after radiation, offering potential protection for healthy tissue ...

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Scientists from MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of Iowa developed a method to protect cancer patients from radiation damage using a protein from tardigrades. When delivered via ...

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