{"id":87279,"date":"2019-01-31T22:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/could-an-extremophile-hold-the-secret-to-treatment-of-devastating-injuries"},"modified":"2019-01-31T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:02:22","slug":"could-an-extremophile-hold-the-secret-to-treatment-of-devastating-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/could-an-extremophile-hold-the-secret-to-treatment-of-devastating-injuries","title":{"rendered":"Could an extremophile hold the secret to treatment of devastating injuries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-an-extremophile-hold-the-secret-to-treatment-of-devastating-injuries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water bear. Moss piglet. Tardigrade.<\/p>\n<p>The gentle teddy-bear features of this polyonymic animal belie its hardy nature.<\/p>\n<p>Capable of withstanding dehydration and cosmic radiation and surviving temperatures as low as &minus;450 F and as high as 300 F, this eight-limbed microscopic creature holds the key to one of biology\u2019s greatest secrets \u2014 extreme survival.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2019\/01\/could-an-extremophile-hold-the-secret-to-treatment-of-devastating-injuries\/\">https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2019\/01\/could-an-extr...-injuries\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water bear. Moss piglet. Tardigrade. The gentle teddy-bear features of this polyonymic animal belie its hardy nature. Capable of withstanding dehydration and cosmic radiation and surviving temperatures as low as \u2212450 F and as high as 300 F, this eight-limbed microscopic creature holds the key to one of biology\u2019s greatest secrets \u2014 extreme survival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}