The incredible resistance of tardigrades to environmental stresses
2021
Despite their life expectancy of 1 to 3 years, tardigrades are aquatic micro-animals remarkable for their ability to survive for very long periods of time under stress conditions as diverse and lethal as extreme temperatures and pressures, desiccation or even irradiation. The molecular mechanisms that confer this unique resistance to extreme conditions have remained unknown until now, despite centuries-old fascination with tardigrades. Researchers in the Protein Dynamics and Flexibility by (…)