Longevity — 24,000 years!
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wrote on 10 Jun 2021, 10:01 last edited by
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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wrote on 10 Jun 2021, 14:05 last edited by
Reproduce asexually? Is that what they’re calling it these days? Not surprising that that’s the first priority upon waking from a 24000 year coma.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2021, 14:28 last edited by
Ax is apparently interested in anyway he can fuck himself...
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wrote on 10 Jun 2021, 15:08 last edited by
Wow. I'm also impressed that the cells can survive being freezed.
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wrote on 11 Jun 2021, 03:09 last edited by
@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.
wrote on 11 Jun 2021, 09:57 last edited by@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?
wrote on 11 Jun 2021, 13:02 last edited byHonestly I’m not a lab person so I don’t know the details but cryopreservation is pretty standard.
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wrote on 11 Jun 2021, 13:17 last edited by
To thaw out red cells, we use a glycerin wash, followed by a couple of saline washes.
Rare types (yes, we have a local family of Bombay Rh null) can be stored for years.