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Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins Into Human Cells. Here's What Happened. (www.sciencealert.com)

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Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins Into Human Cells. Here's What Happened.

Freeze 'em, heat 'em, blast them into empty space; with survival skills unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more.

Tardigrades have already shown they can survive hot and cold temperatures and high levels of radiation that would be fatal to human beings, and long periods without any water – normally so essential to life. They can even survive in space.

Previous research has revealed an impressive number of tricks that tardigrades use to stay alive, built up over hundreds of millions of years. Essentially, they're very good at slowing the processes of life right down with the help of CAHS D, and that could be useful in human cells too.

Amazingly, when we introduce these proteins into human cells, they gel and slow down metabolism, just like in tardigrades.

Early signs are promising in several areas, including the way the proteins are smartly activated when environmental stress is present, and deactivated when it isn't.

When the stress is relieved, the tardigrade gels dissolve, and the human cells return to their normal metabolism.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Alternatively, you can have rejuvenating effects on cells by injecting older patients with a young persons blood.

It's cool, but any time I start thinking about it, I end up flooded with horrible depictions of dystopian levels of abuse that's likely to result from this becoming a trend among the uber-rich.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The current zeitgeist is using young pig plasma (no antigens for rejection), so if that pans out, less vampire dystopia, more bacon... Eventually they'll isolate the needed factors, and it'll be an x-monthly shot, and then a pill.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Twenty years ago my grandmother was dying of old age. She didn't have any specific disease or diagnosis. She was just 92 and her body was shutting down. Whenever she was hospitalized for general organ failure they would give her a blood infusion and she would rebound.

Yes, everyone in the family made the same grim vampire jokes.

No one asked for her to receive this treatment, and she was definitely not well off financially. Her treatment was entirely driven by the medical staff. The only money being collected was through Medicare.

In retrospect, I'm more than half-way wondering if they were collecting data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You're almost awake, citizen. Keep going.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It already is. They just don't advertise it because duh.