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Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades

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Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades

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If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: freezing temperatures, near starvation, high pressure, radiation exposure, outer space and more. Researchers reporting in the journal Nano Letters took advantage of the tardigrade's nearly indestructible nature and gave the critters tiny "tattoos" to test a microfabrication technique to build microscopic, biocompatible devices.

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  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    Sweet. Give it a sick tribal knot with a black rose and flames.

  • blakenong@lemmings.world
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    About 40% of the tardigrades survived the procedure, and the researchers say that could be improved with further fine tuning. Most importantly, the tardigrades didn’t seem to mind their new tattoos: Once rehydrated, they showed no changes in behavior.

    lol. Of the ones that survived, they didn’t seem to mind.

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    Did the tattooing crater it into the surface of wherever this photo was taken like Yamcha vs the Saibamen?

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      just a massive (comparatively) stamp decending from the sky like the boot of god

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  • TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works
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    And how is this useful?

    • Kühlschrank@lemmy.world
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      It’s to test a microfabrication technique to build microscopic, biocompatible devices.

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