eLife
(Jul 2024)
Surviving extreme radiation
- Chaitra Shree Udugere Shivakumara Swamy,
- Thomas C Boothby
Affiliations
- Chaitra Shree Udugere Shivakumara Swamy
- ORCiD
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States
- Thomas C Boothby
- ORCiD
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States
- DOI
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https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.100219
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13
Abstract
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Tiny animals known as tardigrades use a combination of DNA repair machinery and a novel protein to mend their genome after intense ionizing radiation.
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