S6.10: Space invaders: The amazing adaptations of tardigrades
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The Effects of Spaceflight on Tardigrades
Tardigrades can survive in the vacuum about our space. They've been shown to survive and reproduce under sort of normal spaceflight conditions. The idea isn't to engineer an astronaut with a tardigrade gene, but rather to look at maybe when tardigrades are in space they're upregulating production of antioxidants.
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