They decided to add actual tardigrades-- super-tough microscopic creatures, also known as "water bears," that can be dehydrated and revived at least a decade later -- to the resin that sealed the ...

Tardigrades are possibly the most indestructible ... from a damage suppressor protein that literally protects their DNA, to a dehydrated, suspended animation 'tun' state that they can enter ...

Tardigrades enter a form of hibernation called biostasis when they are stressed The proteins that make biostasis possible slowed human cells way down, too Scientists suspect they can use ...

In this “freeze-dried,” dormant state, the tardigrades retract their heads and eight claw-fitted legs to resemble a microscopic peppercorn. They can survive like this for decades and only reanimate ...

Scientists at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy examined how Acutuncus antarcticus, a tardigrade species native to the Antarctic, would react to climate change–associated stressors ...