Demystifying the resilience of water bears: Protein protects human cultured cells from radiation damage

Posted by on September 20, 2016 5:10 pm
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A new water bear protein can protect the DNA of human cultured cells from otherwise lethal amounts of radiation damage, say a group of researchers, providing part of the answer to why tardigrades can live in deadly conditions.

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