The Latexigrade, a Sleeping Beauty, Is Awake

The time the tardigrades were frozen didn't seem to affect their internal clock, almost like it wound down during their dormant phase. This presents some interesting avenues to explore for potential applications to humans. If a cancer patient was able to have their healthy cells extracted before chemotherapy and put into a tardigrade-like state of dormancy, those cells could potentially then be replanted once the harsh treatment was complete. And normal activity, healthy cell or organ function might resume in a much shorter amount of time.