{"id":186290,"date":"2024-03-29T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-put-tardigrade-proteins-into-human-cells-heres-what-happened"},"modified":"2024-03-29T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:22:29","slug":"scientists-put-tardigrade-proteins-into-human-cells-heres-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-put-tardigrade-proteins-into-human-cells-heres-what-happened","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins Into Human Cells. Here\u2019s What Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-put-tardigrade-proteins-into-human-cells-heres-what-happened2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can anyone think of a good use for this protein in our cells in the future? Perhaps in space travel? \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Freeze \u2018em, heat \u2018em, blast them into empty space; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tardigrade-genes-reveal-a-strange-history-of-their-crazy-survival-skills\">survival skills<\/a> unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s clear their ability to withstand stress is in part due to their ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tardigrades-can-survive-decades-without-water-and-we-finally-know-how\">turn their insides into gel<\/a>, the mechanisms behind this act of metabolic preservation haven\u2019t yet been made clear.<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by researchers from the University of Wyoming found that expressing key tardigrade proteins in human cells slowed metabolism, providing critical insights into how these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tardigrades-are-practically-indestructible-but-climate-change-could-be-their-weak-point\">virtually indestructible invertebrates<\/a> can survive under the most extreme conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone think of a good use for this protein in our cells in the future? Perhaps in space travel? \ud83d\ude01 Freeze \u2018em, heat \u2018em, blast them into empty space; with survival skills unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more. While it\u2019s clear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186290","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\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}