The vast majority of living things exist without water, generally to death. However, there are exceptions to this rule. One of them is the tardigrade (Tardigrada), which is dangerous for sick invertebrates ranging in size from 0.1 to 1.5 mm.
In nature, there are more species of tardigrades. Their main feature is their incredible survivability in the harshest conditions. They hit vimalakh at an altitude of up to 6000 m, about ean on a gin up to 4000 m, under polar ices, in hot springs. rare marine animals, they sometimes find themselves outside their usual environment, but do not die, remaining disappearing in nature.
An observation team from the University of Tokyo studied a group of 336 tardigrades, eutardigrads, which have an incredible likelihood of dehydration, found in them by the inherited CAHS protein. Based on the results of experiments on human and tardigrade cells, it was found that data on an increase in the incidence of cells protect them from drying out due to dehydration, as well as from high pressure at great depths.
According to scientists, CAHS has the property of cell-bearing cells, imagining something like a cytoskeleton, but only in the event of a stressful situation – for example, critical dehydration.
In the presented video, you can see the process of combining whites in dehydrated tapholes by forming c c c c. Structures similar to the cytoskeleton protect cells from complete deformation in the absence of water pressure and, apparently, its phenomenal stability.
This process, called anhydrobiosis, can be implemented in a version that allows tardigrades to continue their use from the “stopping point” as soon as they “come to myself”.
Source: Tech Cult
