Hunting the tardigrade: one small step in sequencing DNA of all life on Earth ^17.8%

The Guardian - By Patrick Barkham - 7/4/2026, 5:00 AM

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Witek Morek is closely inspecting an old brick-and-flint wall on the Cambridgeshire campus of the Wellcome Sanger Institute. “We are going to use a very advanced tool designed by bioengineers and evolved over millions of years – the human hand – and grab some moss, and put it in an envelope,” he says. This is tardigrade hunting, the... more