University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have made an exciting discovery of a 3-million-year-old planet, TIDYE-1b – on a human scale, the equivalent in age to a two-week-old […]
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UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers Discover New Clues To How Tardigrades Can Survive Intense Radiation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have discovered that tardigrades – microscopic animals famed for surviving harsh extremes – have an unusual response to radiation.
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Molecular Sensor Enables Water Bear Hardiness By Triggering Dormancy
Tardigrades – hardy, microscopic animals commonly known as “water bears” – use a molecular sensor that detects harmful conditions in their environment, telling them when to go dormant and when […]
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A Huge Chunk of a Tardigrade's Genome Comes From Foreign DNA
Tardigrades, nearly microscopic animals that can survive the harshest of environments, including outer space, hold the record for the animal that has the most foreign DNA Researchers from the University […]