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 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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