S6.10: Space invaders: The amazing adaptations of tardigrades
Genetics Unzipped
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Tardigrase: A Technology for Preventing DNA Damage
Tardigrase can cope with immense amounts of radiation and their DNA falling apart. It may be that tardigrades have just evolved to basically turn these on at full blast when they experience damage. And so of course, we want to be engineering humans with tardigrade proteins to send them into space.
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