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

[gardenfelder]

The team focused on a particular protein called CAHS D, already known to protect against extreme drying (desiccation).

[Supermancho]

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

[lawlessone]

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

>"When the stress is relieved, the tardigrade gels dissolve, and the human cells return to their normal metabolism," says University of Wyoming molecular biologist Thomas Boothby.

Article says different?

[GiorgioG]

I hate clickbait titles like this.

[mgeorge001]

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

[lawlessone]

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...

[justinclift]

"We accidentally colonised Mars with Henrietta Lacks?" ;)

[wrycoder]

What could go wrong?

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

[FrustratedMonky]

Maybe we'll get a God Emperor of Dune

[Q6T46nT668w6i3m]

It’s a cell culture …

[kjkjadksj]

It is orders of magnitude cheaper than a mouse study