Reminiscent of the title character in the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, famously tough tardigrades can pause their biological clocks when in a deep, cold sleep, new research suggests.
It now turns out their metabolism isn't the only process set to 'pause'.inceptum
Amazingly, out of a total of 716 tardigrades, those that were periodically frozen lived twice as long as the control group. The longest lived for 169 days, 94 of those spent at room temperature, while the oldest tardigrade in the control group reached 93 days. "During inactive periods, the internal clock stops and only resumes running once the organism is reactivated,"
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