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Title
Water bears survive cosmic radiation with one DNA-protecting protein – learning how could boost human resilience, too
Published by
The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aai.xmpux4gxy
Authors

Woodward, Tyler

Abstract

Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, data storage and more.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 165. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 November 2025.
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#290,922
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#34,454
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Altmetric has tracked 29,827,970 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 224,557 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 90.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.