Can this be used to store larger organisms for prolonged duration? Maybe instead of cryochambers the future space travelers will use drychambers.
That really brings to mind the various vampire tropes... ;)
Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
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Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#22"This article was originally published in Big Think." In 2017. Word for word copy.
Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#23"This article was originally published in Big Think." In 2017. Word for word copy.
Thank you for pointing out - added 2017 to the title.
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#24"This article was originally published in Big Think." In 2017. Word for word copy.
LOL
ain't nothing like flipping 6-year-old news articles, right lads?
Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#25> If you take those genes and put them into organisms like bacteria and yeast, which normally do not have these proteins, they actually become much more desiccation-tolerant Well I have a newfound fear of humans creating a bacteria as hard to kill as a tardigrade…
Nature is already doing this experiment, right now, and has been for billions of years. This couldn't cause problems even if we wanted it to.
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#26Great! Looking forward for hand-sanitizer-proof virus in the next GoF research.
Re: Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)
#27> If you take those genes and put them into organisms like bacteria and yeast, which normally do not have these proteins, they actually become much more desiccation-tolerant Well I have a newfound fear of humans creating a bacteria as hard to kill as a tardigrade…
Nature is already doing this experiment, right now, and has been for billions of years. This couldn't cause problems even if we wanted it to.
That feels like fatally flawed reasoning. Nature took billions of years to sequester carbon. It’s taken a few hundred to release an amount that’s permanently altered the climate of the Earth.
There’s lots of problems humans can create that “nature” couldn’t precisely because we drastically compress time scales that make adaptation exceedingly difficult.
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#28> ... that looks like something out of a Disney nightmare scene: strange but not particularly threatening.
Funny, I always thought the electron microscope images of tardigrades looked like the monsters in HAZMAT suits from Monsters Inc.
https://www.intelligentliving.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean all we need now is to find out how to make a prion that forms TDPs so we can glue it to the outside of COVID-19 in some twisted gain of function research.
This is such a sad exemplar of where we've gone as a technological society. Thirty years ago, you could have suggested releasing a virus that destroyed cancer, and people would have cheered.
And after 30 years many of us have seen enough corporate propaganda to weary of any so called technological promises.
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#30"This article was originally published in Big Think." In 2017. Word for word copy.
Being pre-Covid-pandemic casts the casual mention of pathogen gain-of-function research in a different light.
Nothing changed for everybody who actually understands gain of function research and does work with it though.
It's just another tool to understand how virusses work. Always has been.