Surviving extreme radiation.

Chaitra Shree Udugere Shivakumara Swamy Thomas C Boothby

Published in: eLife (2024)

Tiny animals known as tardigrades use a combination of DNA repair machinery and a novel protein to mend their genome after intense ionizing radiation.

Keyphrases

dna repair
dna damage
dna damage response
climate change
protein protein
genome wide
amino acid
binding protein
small molecule
radiation therapy