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Tardigrades survive in extreme conditions by entering in a suspended animation called biostasis. They use the proteins to slow down life processes in them.

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Tardigrade proteins could one day deviate our dependence on cold-stored medicine, scientists say. Click to read more.

Tardigrades are quite good at adjusting to challenging environmental circumstances. In the past, Ralph Schill, a professor at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems, showed that dried tardigrades might remain unharmed for several years without ingesting water.

New species of microscopic creatures have been discovered in the Southern Alps.

Research has shown that tardigrades or water bears have a unique type of protein in their cells that protects them from decades of dehydration.

Tardigrades or "water bears" have this unique protein to survive the extremities in life. Tardigrades are unique beings that can survive decades without water or getting any form of hydration, and these are something that researchers think have significant implications for modern medicine.

WATERTOWN — With a war cry of “Tardigrade Tough,” a team of five city employees from the water pollution treatment plant, called the Water Bears, is training for its next