eLife (Jul 2024)

Surviving extreme radiation

  • Chaitra Shree Udugere Shivakumara Swamy,
  • Thomas C Boothby

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.100219
Journal volume & issue
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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