Researchers have found a way to use tardigrade proteins to potentially revolutionize cancer treatment and space travel.

The strangely adorable and resilient tardigrade, or water bear, just might hold the key to making cancer treatment a lot more ...

When people undergo radiotherapy for cancer, it's not just the tumor that suffers. The radiation causes DNA breaks in healthy ...

Currently, there are limited methods to protect cancer patients from radiation damage. A few drugs can help reduce this ...

Tardigrades, microscopic organisms renowned for their extraordinary resistance to radiation, may offer a means to protect ...

About 60 percent of all cancer patients in the United States receive radiation therapy as part of their treatment.

Scientists developed a method to protect cancer patients from radiation damage using a protein from tardigrades. When ...

This protein from tardigrades may hold the key to protecting healthy tissues during cancer radiation treatment.

Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss ... and it can manifest as something as simple as mouth sores, which can limit a person's ability to eat because it's so painful, to requiring ...