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

by gardenfelder on 3/29/2024, 2:17:09 PM with 13 comments

  • by Supermancho on 3/29/2024, 3:23:57 PM

    Answer: It slowed down the metabolism of the cell. It was lethal.

  • by GiorgioG on 3/29/2024, 3:12:32 PM

    I hate clickbait titles like this.

  • by mgeorge001 on 3/29/2024, 3:44:07 PM

    Guess all we need to do now is build a spore drive, and go anywhere in the multiverse in an instant.

  • by lawlessone on 3/29/2024, 3:24:51 PM

    Hopefully they didn't do this with HeLa cells.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#Contamination

    I can imagine the contamination issue would only be made worse...

  • by wrycoder on 3/29/2024, 2:23:18 PM

    What could go wrong?

    I'm wondering why they took the jump to human in vitro studies - did they do murine studies first?