I am scared to know why you are needing a sanity check. I'm assuming the latter has been voted as more important by someone...🙄

They did great! Their poster was super busy every time I pretended to not be hovering 😅.

These two papers independently confirm each other's results and then diverge to provide unique and important insights into tardigrade extreme radiation tolerance. Despite potential for competition, both groups leaned into these strengths to make sure no study got stranded.

In true "this is how science works" fashion, we learned after submitting to CB that another group discovered similar results essentially simultaneously. See that work in eLife elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

I am grateful to our editor and reviewers @currentbiology.bsky.social The paper benefited greatly from their feedback.

TLDR: Tardigrades experience DNA damage from IR. In response, tardigrades upregulate DNA repair transcripts (32 to 315-fold!). We show that high levels of some DNA repair transcripts are sufficient to improve IR tolerance of bacteria and important for tardigrade IR tolerance

I am grateful to our editor and reviewers @currentbiology.bsky.social The paper benefited greatly from their feedback.

TLDR: Tardigrades experience DNA damage from IR. In response, tardigrades upregulate DNA repair transcripts (32 to 315-fold!). We show that high levels of some DNA repair transcripts are sufficient to improve IR tolerance of bacteria and important for tardigrade IR tolerance

Can I be added please!
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