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

by gardenfelderon 3/29/24, 2:17 PMwith 13 comments
by Supermanchoon 3/29/24, 3:23 PM

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

by GiorgioGon 3/29/24, 3:12 PM

I hate clickbait titles like this.

by mgeorge001on 3/29/24, 3:44 PM

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

by lawlessoneon 3/29/24, 3:24 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 wrycoderon 3/29/24, 2:23 PM

What could go wrong?

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