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| * can survive massive doses of ionizing radiation (up to 5,000 Grays)—roughly 1,000 times the lethal threshold for humans | * can survive massive doses of ionizing radiation (up to 5,000 Grays)—roughly 1,000 times the lethal threshold for humans | ||
| * they achieve this through extreme upregulation of specialized DNA repair genes and unique, tardigrade-specific DNA-protecting proteins like TDR1 that stitch their shattered genomes back together | * they achieve this through extreme upregulation of specialized DNA repair genes and unique, tardigrade-specific DNA-protecting proteins like TDR1 that stitch their shattered genomes back together | ||
| + | * cryptobiosis (The Tun State): by drying out into an inactive state called a " | ||
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