Radiotolerance Lessons from the Tardigrades

Image: female tardigrade containing eggs. Hashimoto and colleagues (2016) published an article in Nature recently: Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein Tardigrades, a.k.a. water bears, are some of the most extreme organisms, capable of surviving in the most un-habitable environments and being exposed to insults that would kill