Our research focuses on the remarkable resilience of tardigrades and rotifers-animals capable of surviving extreme environmental conditions that would be lethal to most organisms. By integrating biochemistry, molecular biology, and biophysics, we aim to decode the molecular basis of this "extreme tolerance." Our work also extends to human health, where we study cellular stress responses and cell cycle regulation. One of our most ambitious goals is to engineer stress-resistant human cells by leveraging unique genes from these microscopic survival experts.

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