Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts think they might even survive right up until the Sun dies.
  • Illogicalbit@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    My favorite quote:

    “When tardigrades begin to dry out, they start making these proteins at very, very high levels, essentially filling the inside of their cells with these weird, disordered, floppy proteins,”