{"id":129092,"date":"2021-10-16T20:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/not-science-fiction-german-scientists-harness-the-power-of-photosynthesis-for-new-way-to-breathe"},"modified":"2021-10-16T20:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T03:22:45","slug":"not-science-fiction-german-scientists-harness-the-power-of-photosynthesis-for-new-way-to-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/not-science-fiction-german-scientists-harness-the-power-of-photosynthesis-for-new-way-to-breathe","title":{"rendered":"Not Science Fiction: German Scientists Harness the Power of Photosynthesis for New Way To \u201cBreathe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/not-science-fiction-german-scientists-harness-the-power-of-photosynthesis-for-new-way-to-breathe.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Photosynthesizing algae injected into the blood vessels of tadpoles supply oxygen to their brains.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leading a double life in water and on land, frogs have many breathing techniques \u2013 through the gills, lungs, and skin \u2013 over the course of their lifetime. Now German scientists have developed another method that allows tadpoles to \u201cbreathe\u201d by introducing algae into their bloodstream to supply oxygen. The method developed, presented October 13 in the journal <em>iScience<\/em>, provided enough oxygen to effectively rescue neurons in the brains of oxygen-deprived tadpoles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe algae actually produced so much oxygen that they could bring the nerve cells back to life, if you will,\u201d says senior author Hans Straka of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. \u201cFor many people, it sounds like science fiction, but after all, it\u2019s just the right combination of biological schemes and biological principles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photosynthesizing algae injected into the blood vessels of tadpoles supply oxygen to their brains. Leading a double life in water and on land, frogs have many breathing techniques \u2013 through the gills, lungs, and skin \u2013 over the course of their lifetime. Now German scientists have developed another method that allows tadpoles to \u201cbreathe\u201d by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}