Longevity — 24,000 years!
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h/t @wtg
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microscopic-animal-bdelloid-rotifer-frozen-siberian-permafrost/
Multicellular micro-organism found to have survived for 24,000 years in cryptobiosis under the Siberian permafrost, and it could still still reproduce asexually after being thawed!
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@klaus said in Longevity — 24,000 years!:
Wow. I'm also impressed that the cells can survive being freezed.
Cells are frozen all the time. In our institutions T cell therapy program for TILs and CARs we freeze Cell lines on a regular basis.
I think the issue here is the time frame and that it’s a multicellular organism.
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@klaus said in Longevity — 24,000 years!:
Wow. I'm also impressed that the cells can survive being freezed.
Cells are frozen all the time. In our institutions T cell therapy program for TILs and CARs we freeze Cell lines on a regular basis.
I think the issue here is the time frame and that it’s a multicellular organism.
@bachophile said in Longevity — 24,000 years!:
Cells are frozen all the time.
But isn't it usually the case that, unless special precautions are taken, the ice crystals destroy the cell?
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@bachophile said in Longevity — 24,000 years!:
Cells are frozen all the time.
But isn't it usually the case that, unless special precautions are taken, the ice crystals destroy the cell?
Honestly I’m not a lab person so I don’t know the details but cryopreservation is pretty standard.
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