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  2. Environmental tolerance in tardigrades - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades' ability to remain desiccated for long periods of time was thought to depend on high levels of the sugar trehalose, [28] common in organisms that survive desiccation. [9] However, tardigrades do not synthesize enough trehalose for this function. [28] Instead, tardigrades produce intrinsically disordered proteins in

  3. Tardigrade - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades are among the most resilient animals known, with individual species able to survive extreme conditions – such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressures (both high and low), air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation – that would quickly kill most other forms of life. Tardigrades have survived exposure ...

  4. Tardigrades in space - Wikipedia

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    The mission was a prototype for the "Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment" (LIFE) [17] which was to have travelled to the Martian moon Phobos on the Russian Fobos-Grunt spacecraft. [18] [19] The spacecraft however failed to leave Earth orbit and was destroyed. [20] [21]

  5. How Cryptobiosis Makes Tardigrades Almost Indestructible - AOL

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    Tardigrades are affectionately known as water bears or moss piglets and are tiny invertebrates measuring a maximum of 0.05 inches in length. Viewed through a microscope, they look a little like a ...

  6. Tardigrades, or water bears, thrive in some of Earth’s harshest environments. Now, researchers say they have unlocked the survival mechanism of the tiny creature. Scientists now think they know ...

  7. Milnesium tardigradum - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrades have been shown to respond to different temperature changes at different developmental stages. Specifically, the younger the egg, the less likely it is to survive extreme environments. However, not too long after development, tardigrades demonstrate a remarkable ability to withstand these conditions.

  8. Tardigrade specific proteins - Wikipedia

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    Tardigrade specific proteins are types of intrinsically disordered proteins specific to tardigrades. These proteins help tardigrades survive desiccation, one of the adaptations which contribute to tardigrade's extremotolerant nature. Tardigrade specific proteins are strongly influenced by their environment, leading to adaptive malleability ...

  9. Scientists shot tardigrades out of a gun at more than 2,000 ...

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    A spacecraft carrying tardigrades crashed on the moon in 2019. In a 2021 study, scientists set out to test whether the creatures could've survived.