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

• lawlessone 3y ago
  >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?
  • Supermancho 3y ago
    The slowing of cell metabolism is lethal. The fact you can restore individual cells to something close to "normal" at a later time, doesn't help. Your patient is dead and the cells eventually die anyway. I am not convinced that the "normal" metabolism of the cell, afterward, is anything other than metabolic collapse.
    • MattPalmer1086 3y ago
      But nobody was suggesting doing to this to an entire human. Pointing out that doing this would be lethal is a strawman. It's just research to move our understanding of how this works forwards a bit. Some possible future applications that could arise from much more research were preserving tissue for organ transplants, or maybe in slowing down aging. But not using the current technique.