{"id":13263,"date":"2016-09-29T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13263"},"modified":"2016-09-29T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T19:26:00","slug":"videos-tardigrades-begin-to-reveal-the-secrets-to-their-incredible-toughness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13263","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Tardigrades begin to reveal the secrets to their incredible toughness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The microscopic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tardigrade\" target=\"_d\">Tardigrade<\/a>\u00a0animals have become famous for their amazing\u00a0resilience to extremes of temperature, dryness, vacuum, and radiation. Research is starting to unlock the secrets to their stupendous\u00a0survival skills:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/236180-tardigrade-dna-inserted-into-human-cells-gives-x-ray-resistance\">Tardigrade DNA inserted into human cells gives them X-ray resistance | ExtremeTech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/9\/20\/12990274\/tardigrade-extreme-water-bears-genome-sequence\" target=\"_d\">Tardigrades can live 30 years in a freezer and survive in space, and now we know why |\u00a0The Verge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This video shows some of the tardigrades&#8217; special qualities:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7W194GQ6fHI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an example of a possible application derived from Tardigrade research:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fmqzPtzcBE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The microscopic\u00a0Tardigrade\u00a0animals have become famous for their amazing\u00a0resilience to extremes of temperature, dryness, vacuum, and radiation. Research is starting to unlock the secrets to their stupendous\u00a0survival skills: Tardigrade DNA inserted into human cells gives them X-ray resistance | ExtremeTech Tardigrades can live 30 years in a freezer and survive in space, and now we know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: Tardigrades begin to reveal the secrets to their incredible toughness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3rV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19519,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19519","url_meta":{"origin":13263,"position":0},"title":"The Space Show this week &#8211; Aug.26.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. 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