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The next revolutionary drug or medical treatment could be laying inside a plant or microbe that's about to go extinct.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y ago
The next revolutionary drug or medical treatment could be laying inside a plant or microbe that's about to go extinct.
- nativeit 3y agoAlso, current revolutionary biomedical technologies, as was recently reported in relation to horseshoe crabs, whose blood is a necessary and irreplaceable medical ingredient, and who have survived several mass extinction events over the course of the species’ 500,000,000 years of existence—and yet humans over harvesting and failing to protect fisheries have caused unprecedented declines in their numbers causing real concern for their species survival.
- quesera 3y ago> The next revolutionary drug or medical treatment could be laying inside a plant or microbe that's about to go extinct I read this a lot. It feels a bit pat to me, but I am uneducated. Is this any more true/likely than, e.g.: - There could be a lost diamond ring at the bottom of any septic tank - Any terminated pregnancy could have become the scientist who saved the world/cured cancer/etc
- adammarples 3y agoNo matter how alien life on earth is, it is incredibly closely related to us compared to pretty much anything else. This is more like don't kill off half your family, they have kidneys, amongst millions of other things you don't even know about yet, that you night need.
- quesera 3y agoThat helps! Thank you.