{"id":91522,"date":"2019-06-01T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/a-frozen-tardigrade-has-been-brought-back-to-life-after-30-years"},"modified":"2019-06-01T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T22:22:34","slug":"a-frozen-tardigrade-has-been-brought-back-to-life-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/a-frozen-tardigrade-has-been-brought-back-to-life-after-30-years","title":{"rendered":"A Frozen Tardigrade Has Been Brought Back to Life After 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-frozen-tardigrade-has-been-brought-back-to-life-after-30-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tardigrade that had been frozen solid for more than 30 years has been brought back to life by researchers in Japan, and has gone on to produce 14 healthy babies. That\u2019s record-smashing stuff right there, because before this tough little water bear came back to life, the world record for reviving a frozen tardigrade was nine years.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also thawed out an egg that was collected and frozen with the tardigrade in 1983, and not only did a healthy baby hatch from it six days later, but it went on to successfully produce offspring of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few months after scientists debated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-tardigrade-genome-has-been-sequenced-and-it-has-the-most-foreign-dna-of-any-animal\">unprecedented amount<\/a> of foreign DNA that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-research-casts-doubt-on-the-claim-that-tardigrades-get-one-sixth-of-dna-from-other-species\">is or isn\u2019t looped up into the tardigrade genome<\/a>, and the discovery that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/water-bears-turn-into-glass-when-they-dry-out\">they turn into \u2018bioglass\u2019 when they desiccate<\/a>, a team from the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan has managed to bring a frozen Antarctic tardigrade (<em>Acutuncus antarcticus<\/em>) back to life with its reproductive organs fully intact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-frozen-tardigrade-has-been-brought-back-to-life-after-30-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tardigrade that had been frozen solid for more than 30 years has been brought back to life by researchers in Japan, and has gone on to produce 14 healthy babies. That\u2019s record-smashing stuff right there, because before this tough little water bear came back to life, the world record for reviving a frozen tardigrade [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91522","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}