Drawing inspiration from the tardigrade, researchers developed a new strategy that may protect cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy. About 60 percent of all cancer patients in ...

Researchers are drawing inspiration from the proteins that they think let hearty water bears cheat time by decelerating their biology. By Steph Yin There are many instances in medicine when it would ...

Tardigrades are microscopic invertebrates measuring between 0.2 mm and 1.1 mm in length. They are close relatives of arthropods (spiders, insects, crustaceans), and can live in wide variety of ...