I have been on TH-cam since day one. In all those years, this is my favorite person on here. I used to make stuff here myself. I was having a good time till Google took it over but I understand what it takes to make good content on here on a regular basis. Nothing but respect for this guy.
Also way up on the list, the actually most durable organism, thrives at 88C, lives merrily up to 100C, found thriving at a hydrothermal vent 2600 m down, survives 30000 Gy (5 Gy being lethal to us), Thermococcus gammatolerans. Lives on hydrogen sulfide. This organism survives in an aerobic environment, so it needs or ignores oxygen and survives at temperate environments, so no sanity challenged environments needed to grow it. Another critter was found at the "elephant's foot" at Chernobyl, it survived the worst that that extremely radioactive at the time corium produced, partially due to similar DNA repair these critters use, partially due to melanin blocking the gamma and xray radiation. Yeah, the crap that gives us a tan protected it from radiation. Guess the Hulk won't be green, he'll be black. Or at least a bit darker than I currently can tan and I tan well enough to confuse everyone from Berbers through Indians as to my ethnicity when I was in the Middle East and Horn of Africa and well, being of Sicilian heritage, got DNA from everyone but Native American and Asian descent, given everyone else invaded Sicily over the millennia. ;) Well, except I'm a bit more cold tolerant, I've barbecued at home down to -6 C wearing just shorts and a light jacket. And my anger management skills are a bit better than Mr Green's. I only beat idiots with a Buick, not tanks that someone would then make me repair... :P Oh, for those worried about building evil e. coli, we all have that bacteria tamely living in our gut, it literally helps us process our foods into vitamins we need. Only a few strains cause disease and those were influenced by bacteriophage infection giving them their toxins. Now, adapting that to humans, hell, even anything complex enough to have a nervous system, that's like adapting an old wind up wrist watch into a supercomputer. Maybe you can manage it, it'll be dicey, it'll barely work at times and it'd be simpler to just use chips, like the computing gods of silicon intended for this week. But, it could give us clues on anti-cancer drugs that'd reprogram bum sections of our DNA that are more susceptible to damage that triggers cancerous cellular behavior. Which makes such observations even more invaluable, for bacteria we ain't, but we are very loosely and distantly related enough to share a bit of biochemistry to be quite useful.
Lol super resilliant to radiation and some other things like acid. Heat will still kill it, so cooking your food is still gonna work and boiling water will still kill it. Once the cell membrane is broken the dna can repair all it likes the cells bits are scattered around and chances are conan here wont survive temperatures that boil the water within it. I hope... Anton can you confirm its not a heat extremophile too??
Could a similar mechanism be evolving in bacteria that's grown resistant to modern antibiotics? Also, being resistant to damage/mutation seems like a double-edged sword. They're extremely durable but if they run in to something they're not strong enough to deal with it'll be much harder for subsequent generations to develop the appropriate countermeasures. I'd be cautious trying to replicate it. There's gotta be a reason this trait isn't present in most other lifeforms.
Microbiologists have been looking for that key protein for a long time. First, we thought it was the organism's DNA repair system, then manganese concentration. It turns out that it was a unique DNA repair enzyme all along peculiar to this bacterium. It will be interesting to see if there are any homologs out there, or if it only evolved once in this bug.
My question for Anton: if this protein suite is so fabulous then why is it not ubiquitous? Cost in energy too high, maybe? And/or, its tendency to choke mutation and diversification *only* gives advantage in dessicating environments? He asked wonderingly...
There is a big cost associated with having this enzyme. Having such robust DNA repair also means mutations will be so rare that evolution is blunted. We are the way we are because our genome is just fragile enough that we could accumulate advantageous mutations to pass on to new generations. This microbe probably has no future lineage other than itself. Never created an opportunity to be multicellular.
Which one of you is planning to mutate your way to a better version of yourselves during your life times? Talk to me about the cost of not having this enzyme.. getting old and sick as you age because your DNA is perfectly fragile. I don't want to be forever young and healthy because maybe my offspring won't have superhuman mutations. Is this your argument?
@@JohnSmith-sk7cg yes, however there is a miniscule chance that it could find a small pocket of habitability. I think that it might be worth considering engineering microorganisms like this to begin a primitive biosphere on other worlds. Or see if we could create something that could live in such conditions in a lab setting. My hope is someday humanity could establish new biospheres on new worlds. Or at the very least better learn what might be in the realms of possibilities.
@@ski364 Not on Titan - it's a deep freeze. At best we might find some protobiological molecules there. Europa or Enceladus, maybe, though there are probably better archaea for that purpose if we ever decide to infect a moon.
@@christopherellis2663 flying machines, lasers, and spaceships were once too. Exploring scientific possibilities is how unexpected discoveries are made. Like Velcro.
It reminded me of the opening scene of I am Legend: The proud scientist showing a break-through cure, cutting into a scene of roads packed with long-time abandoned cars in a dead NY city.
sure sure cancer. I'm thinkin' space. imagine not needing to worry about shielding on long space flights, or colonizing the moon or mars. Hell, add this to that radiation eating fungus from Chernobyl... 🤔
Let's be adults and worry about what it can do for people here right now, such as for curing cancer, before being children wanting to live your SciFi fantasies.
@@BatchCam there's an organism that survived right next to the elephant's foot. Apparently, shielding for it was accomplished by melanin of a specific mutation. Add techniques derived from this and Thermococcus gammatolerans, might knock cancers on their butts. Won't fix space flight though, there are major vascular, CNS and bone related issues from microgravity to still counter. Shielding is easy enough, something necessary for life anyway can be gainfully employed - water. Just need more fuel to haul what we'd require anyway. Might counter the microgravity with dual counterspinning habitats, assuming we can gin up good enough seals and bearings and varying the spins can help reorient the craft while in flight. Long term colonies ain't happening, it'd be de facto exile at best. But, longer term research colonies could be easily achieved under a meter or two of regolith for shielding, light pipe in sunlight for illumination and plant growth. Off the cuff, maybe good for 3 - 5 year duration missions, with the centrifugal gravity on the spacecraft for interplanetary transport. Main belt outward? You're on your own there, sun's got a weak stream that far out, so you'll need to pack a hell of a set of energy sources and spares for failures. Nearby stars? I'd like you to kindly urinate in this cup, because you must *really* be high...
@@robo5013 It seems kind of insulting to call other's musings about a discovery "Sci Fi fantasies". Science may, or may not advance by leaps and bounds from this discovery. One or two hundred years ago curing cancer was a Sci Fi fantasy. Now, it is pretty commonly cured. Advances, big or small, only come when someone asks, "What will happen if I try this...?
Nope. First, we're not bacteria, the complexities are a lot higher. But, it can give important clues on DNA repair, which could be a godsend in cancer treatments and perhaps, correct some birth defects. Add in repair methods Thermococcus gammatolerans uses, which survives even nastier environments, we'll get more clues, although TG is anerobic and requires hydrogen sulfide to survive (and literally boiling temperatures and lives at 2600 m of water). Add in the Chernobyl organism that survived off of the elephant's foot's techniques, we'll likely be really cooking with gas! Oddly, HS is a cellular signalling chemical even in humans *and* shows some utility in suspended animation in some creatures, just not vertebrates.
Ref: Anton Tchaïkovsky's sci-fi novel "Alien Clay" in which interstellar travel becomes (unreliably) possible courtesy of extreme dedication. A bit like the aliens in "3 Body Problem"
Mind-blowing! The only downside I can see is if this gets moved to deadly bacteria that start infecting food and other items making everything dangerous to eat or touch. That would really suck😮
Bacteria are much easier to use for experiments like these than plants or animals. And E. coli is the model organism of microbiology, so it’s no surprise the researchers defaulted to it.
It's a ubiquitous bacterium that is also always inside humans. Unless you're irradiating gut bacteria to manage your health I don't think this could change anything lol.
They should definitely try human trials as a last time resort with a cancer patient that's about to die anyway, imagine the consequences for all of us if patient zero becomes completely healthy...
I remember a story from a couple/few decades ago about the development of some kind of enzyme that should've been helpful in the clean-up of large oil spills. Testing in the lab made the scientists extremely excited to the point that they wanted to cease testing and move to practical applications with real world mishaps. Further testing did continue until it was discovered that the enzyme hindered nutrient uptake in the root systems of most plant life on the planet. Remember, prior to the first a-bomb test it was suggested that the resulting explosion could be anything from a small localised event, to total destruction of the state, country, planet, or even the solar system. Thankfully the attitude back then was "better dead than red" and the test resulted in only a large localised explosion. What could possibly go wrong?
The sheer amount of time and distance a microbe would have to travel on an asteroid just to get from one habitable planet to another just seems too insane for the 'life came from outer space' hypothesis to have any substance. Surviving the fiery plummet down to Earth's surface also sounds implausible... but who knows?
no one is addressing the elephant in the room when it comes to panspermia: how the hell does the bacteria survive the friction when entering the atmosphere, and also the impact? some of those conditions are often more destructive than a nuclear bomb. also to travel interstellar, the asteroid would have to travel for thousands if not millions of years. what does the bacteria eat during that time?
Not necessarily. This video says the bacterium is mostly immune to dehydration and damage to dna from radiation. That doesn't mean our immune system or antibiotics couldn't kill the bacterium just as easily.
"resilient to mutation" AKA the genes from this microbe could quite literally help 'cure cancer' in humans: most cancers being point-mutation errors in transcription/lation/replication of DNA...IF the genes help to ensure these processes are less error prone THIS COULD be the change that helps people live 'more healthily' to 90+, without many of the infermities of old age.
One of the weirdest things I’ve learned about being a human is that a very large part of “me”, is made up of trillions of bacteria, viruses, bacteriophages, and other living organisms. I am a colony organism, in reality. Amazing!
The universe just learned the same thing, that it is populated by trillions of creatures, and among them 8 billions humans from an unknown region of the universe.
DNA is like a cassette tape or VHS movie or rele movie, the DNA is the tape. The epigenetics are the part of the tape being played now, they are the movie scene or the song playing. The histone bodies are the actual wheel that the tape is wound around. Methylation of DNA pins it to the wheel so that it can't be played again. Hopefully this helps you understand the analog nature of epigenetics interplaying with DNA.
People say Anton has a vast number of intellectuals putting his videos together. But they can't explain his genus speaking to the subjects like no else one imaginable.
I would find great if we can find a way to make ourselves as resistant to radiations. Outer space radiation is one of our main hurdles stopping us from becoming a multi planet species. Resistance to desiccation would also make us more resilient to earthly extreme conditions like in deserts
This is an incredible discovery truly. This might be a new gene to all life. It will certainly spread everywhere now, espscially since they mixed it with E coli already. I wonder what its affect on cancer will be. This is so amazing.
Pretty awesome! I wonder if inserting a similar protein or gene for that protein into humans would reduce the risk of cancer because of the radiation resistance... but it wouldn't make you immune, so if you do develop cancer it would probably suck to not be able to treat it with radiation if the resistance gene was in your cancer, too.
Stem cells are far more useful than this and are already well understood enough to use in the medical sector It's not as simple as just injecting us with a gene that this bacteria uses to make that protein. There'll be a whole host of genes that we'd need before we can make that protein ourselves
I have been on TH-cam since day one. In all those years, this is my favorite person on here. I used to make stuff here myself. I was having a good time till Google took it over but I understand what it takes to make good content on here on a regular basis. Nothing but respect for this guy.
That smile at the end
9:55
My day in incomplete if I don't see that at least once. "0_o"
More of a Grimace than a smile.
I made a 10 second GIF of it and have it playing on my desktop... cheers me up
"Smile"
Thank you for helping the world, Anton. ❤
Deinococcus radiodurans vs Tardigrade. Now on pay-per-view 🍿
With special guest referee.. The "Wonderful" Anton Petrov!
😁😁😁😁😁🤣😂😅🤣😂
I would also like to see them have a rap battle 😄
Also way up on the list, the actually most durable organism, thrives at 88C, lives merrily up to 100C, found thriving at a hydrothermal vent 2600 m down, survives 30000 Gy (5 Gy being lethal to us), Thermococcus gammatolerans. Lives on hydrogen sulfide. This organism survives in an aerobic environment, so it needs or ignores oxygen and survives at temperate environments, so no sanity challenged environments needed to grow it.
Another critter was found at the "elephant's foot" at Chernobyl, it survived the worst that that extremely radioactive at the time corium produced, partially due to similar DNA repair these critters use, partially due to melanin blocking the gamma and xray radiation. Yeah, the crap that gives us a tan protected it from radiation.
Guess the Hulk won't be green, he'll be black. Or at least a bit darker than I currently can tan and I tan well enough to confuse everyone from Berbers through Indians as to my ethnicity when I was in the Middle East and Horn of Africa and well, being of Sicilian heritage, got DNA from everyone but Native American and Asian descent, given everyone else invaded Sicily over the millennia. ;)
Well, except I'm a bit more cold tolerant, I've barbecued at home down to -6 C wearing just shorts and a light jacket. And my anger management skills are a bit better than Mr Green's. I only beat idiots with a Buick, not tanks that someone would then make me repair... :P
Oh, for those worried about building evil e. coli, we all have that bacteria tamely living in our gut, it literally helps us process our foods into vitamins we need. Only a few strains cause disease and those were influenced by bacteriophage infection giving them their toxins.
Now, adapting that to humans, hell, even anything complex enough to have a nervous system, that's like adapting an old wind up wrist watch into a supercomputer. Maybe you can manage it, it'll be dicey, it'll barely work at times and it'd be simpler to just use chips, like the computing gods of silicon intended for this week. But, it could give us clues on anti-cancer drugs that'd reprogram bum sections of our DNA that are more susceptible to damage that triggers cancerous cellular behavior. Which makes such observations even more invaluable, for bacteria we ain't, but we are very loosely and distantly related enough to share a bit of biochemistry to be quite useful.
Thanks
Conan the Bacterium. Sequel to Osmosis Jones.
2:01 Spoiler alert, nice two. 1:53
So ... that is what the Holographic Doctor in Voyager used on the crew to treat/immuninize against radiation! 😮
They made e-coli super resilient? Um, no… just no…
It's okay, fecal vision is just around the corner.
Lol super resilliant to radiation and some other things like acid. Heat will still kill it, so cooking your food is still gonna work and boiling water will still kill it. Once the cell membrane is broken the dna can repair all it likes the cells bits are scattered around and chances are conan here wont survive temperatures that boil the water within it. I hope... Anton can you confirm its not a heat extremophile too??
Super indestructible Tuberculosis... wooohooo :P
We are all thinking the same thing 'Plandemic 2 - Super coofid the eternal lockdown!'
We don't use radiation to kill ecoli
Absolutely incredible discovery. Thanks for this.
Now we about figure Deadpool and Wolverine. lol
Could a similar mechanism be evolving in bacteria that's grown resistant to modern antibiotics? Also, being resistant to damage/mutation seems like a double-edged sword. They're extremely durable but if they run in to something they're not strong enough to deal with it'll be much harder for subsequent generations to develop the appropriate countermeasures. I'd be cautious trying to replicate it. There's gotta be a reason this trait isn't present in most other lifeforms.
A creature's evolution, frozen in time; all mutations immediately blocked and flushed.
AFAIK antibiotics attack the cell not its DNA so hopefully this is not the mechanism for drug resistance.
That's assuming that the optimal rate of mutation is achieved within fairly arbitrary environmental conditions.
Conan the bacterium "GRAB MY HELIX!"
"1 of the many proteins this bacterium carries"...that's mind blowing. I wonder what the rest allows it to do.
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 👍😊😁
Another impressive lecture Anton
Anton: There is a plant that mimics other plants around it in shape and form. Even plastic plants! Thats a subject!
Microbiologists have been looking for that key protein for a long time. First, we thought it was the organism's DNA repair system, then manganese concentration. It turns out that it was a unique DNA repair enzyme all along peculiar to this bacterium. It will be interesting to see if there are any homologs out there, or if it only evolved once in this bug.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
@@karol8525 It's not a bug, it's a creature, and a complex one at that
That's so exciting! Really hope it'll be used in the future to make (some) organisms more resilient to their environments
Wow! This is huge! What a discovery.,.. like. .Thanks bacteria for coming up with that protein there..
Hope those enhanced e-coli don't wipe us all out.
don’t worry. there will be plenty of wiping.
Not like we use radiation to kill e-coli here on earth anyway
Ah yes, the only thing they need to destroy us is a way to withstand more ultraviolet radiation...
Just two years of lockdown*
* Disclaimer: Time is relative
Mind expanding as usual, thanks
My question for Anton: if this protein suite is so fabulous then why is it not ubiquitous? Cost in energy too high, maybe? And/or, its tendency to choke mutation and diversification *only* gives advantage in dessicating environments? He asked wonderingly...
Question, but not for Anton. For Shiva the Destroyer, or Great Geometr? I have rights for immortality? Yes, you have. I can...? No, you can't!!!
There is a big cost associated with having this enzyme. Having such robust DNA repair also means mutations will be so rare that evolution is blunted. We are the way we are because our genome is just fragile enough that we could accumulate advantageous mutations to pass on to new generations. This microbe probably has no future lineage other than itself. Never created an opportunity to be multicellular.
@@сергейкомаров-в4е That's the worst AI drivel I've ever confronted.
Which one of you is planning to mutate your way to a better version of yourselves during your life times?
Talk to me about the cost of not having this enzyme.. getting old and sick as you age because your DNA is perfectly fragile.
I don't want to be forever young and healthy because maybe my offspring won't have superhuman mutations. Is this your argument?
Looks like a good tera forming candidate. I wonder how it would do in the clouds of Venus? Or on Titan?
Presumably it wouldn't do anything. It can survive extreme conditions, but only in stasis. It's not biologically active during these times.
@@JohnSmith-sk7cg yes, however there is a miniscule chance that it could find a small pocket of habitability. I think that it might be worth considering engineering microorganisms like this to begin a primitive biosphere on other worlds. Or see if we could create something that could live in such conditions in a lab setting. My hope is someday humanity could establish new biospheres on new worlds. Or at the very least better learn what might be in the realms of possibilities.
@@ski364 Not on Titan - it's a deep freeze. At best we might find some protobiological molecules there. Europa or Enceladus, maybe, though there are probably better archaea for that purpose if we ever decide to infect a moon.
Why bother? Terraforming is imaginary. Look at how good we are at it! Go back to your Sci-fi library
@@christopherellis2663 flying machines, lasers, and spaceships were once too. Exploring scientific possibilities is how unexpected discoveries are made. Like Velcro.
A stop by your channel is never dissapointing!
Excellent video as always. Thank you!
Fascinating Anton......
Telomere repair maybe? This is amazeballs
“Conan, the Bacterium “.
Who knew Anton was so well-read?!?
Best line in the entire script!
Now we can really weaponize superbugs. The potential is amazing,... and frightening as well.
Illustrates the sickness that already infects the human race
It reminded me of the opening scene of I am Legend: The proud scientist showing a break-through cure, cutting into a scene of roads packed with long-time abandoned cars in a dead NY city.
There was a natural accumulation of uranium in South Africa that created a low level nuclear reactor, which continued for thousands of years.
Good point, natural nuclear reactor
... talk to us about the teleomeres
This was so amazing, thank you for sharing this information with us.
On the surface, creating a super resistant strain of e. coli seems counterintuitive to me...
It won't mutate, so no problem. Of course, arrogance is always a potential problem.
@@Galahad54 It doesn't have to mutate. Other than in the colon, e. coli is a very dangerous bacterium.
What could possibly go wrong?😂
Interesting how such a small creature could be so important. Rather humbling, don't you think?
this is seriously incredible
I'm always amazed at how advanced everything has become since my youth. We can see inside of the insides of the insides of a bacteria
As a former comp sci major, this stuff makes me unreasonably excited.
Wow. That was very interesting.
sure sure cancer. I'm thinkin' space. imagine not needing to worry about shielding on long space flights, or colonizing the moon or mars. Hell, add this to that radiation eating fungus from Chernobyl... 🤔
Spaceflight was my thought... I'd still be worried about heavy metals around Chernobyl
manned space flight would become significantly cheaper just from cutting protective shielding from payload.
Let's be adults and worry about what it can do for people here right now, such as for curing cancer, before being children wanting to live your SciFi fantasies.
@@BatchCam there's an organism that survived right next to the elephant's foot. Apparently, shielding for it was accomplished by melanin of a specific mutation. Add techniques derived from this and Thermococcus gammatolerans, might knock cancers on their butts.
Won't fix space flight though, there are major vascular, CNS and bone related issues from microgravity to still counter.
Shielding is easy enough, something necessary for life anyway can be gainfully employed - water. Just need more fuel to haul what we'd require anyway. Might counter the microgravity with dual counterspinning habitats, assuming we can gin up good enough seals and bearings and varying the spins can help reorient the craft while in flight.
Long term colonies ain't happening, it'd be de facto exile at best. But, longer term research colonies could be easily achieved under a meter or two of regolith for shielding, light pipe in sunlight for illumination and plant growth. Off the cuff, maybe good for 3 - 5 year duration missions, with the centrifugal gravity on the spacecraft for interplanetary transport.
Main belt outward? You're on your own there, sun's got a weak stream that far out, so you'll need to pack a hell of a set of energy sources and spares for failures.
Nearby stars? I'd like you to kindly urinate in this cup, because you must *really* be high...
@@robo5013 It seems kind of insulting to call other's musings about a discovery "Sci Fi fantasies". Science may, or may not advance by leaps and bounds from this discovery. One or two hundred years ago curing cancer was a Sci Fi fantasy. Now, it is pretty commonly cured. Advances, big or small, only come when someone asks, "What will happen if I try this...?
"Nah, I'd adapt."
-Mircrobraga
It would be wonderful to imagine that this is how we cure cancer. The possibilities are staggering! Thank you for another hope filled lesson.
Loving that nickname!!! "Conan the Bacterium" 😂🥰
MARAVILLOSO DESCUBRIMIENTO
At least we now know why we can only kill 99.999% of all bacteria, damn you Conan the Bacterium!
Conan "You killed my mother, my father, my people!"
I can see it repairing DNA damage from aging, but not cancer. Repairing mutant cancer cells could make them resistant to radiation therapy.
It's a single cell lifeform, it can't get cancer
This could fix people to be able to travel in space, even make cryo-sleep possible 😎👍😎
Nope. First, we're not bacteria, the complexities are a lot higher. But, it can give important clues on DNA repair, which could be a godsend in cancer treatments and perhaps, correct some birth defects.
Add in repair methods Thermococcus gammatolerans uses, which survives even nastier environments, we'll get more clues, although TG is anerobic and requires hydrogen sulfide to survive (and literally boiling temperatures and lives at 2600 m of water). Add in the Chernobyl organism that survived off of the elephant's foot's techniques, we'll likely be really cooking with gas!
Oddly, HS is a cellular signalling chemical even in humans *and* shows some utility in suspended animation in some creatures, just not vertebrates.
Ref: Anton Tchaïkovsky's sci-fi novel "Alien Clay" in which interstellar travel becomes (unreliably) possible courtesy of extreme dedication. A bit like the aliens in "3 Body Problem"
@@mickwilson99 *Adrian 😅
OMG! This is either the great thing ever or, a giant problem.
Possibly both. We'll let humanity decide...Uh-oh
Clearly those microbes had magic crystals in their pockets LOL
This bacteria has a peace sign ☮️
Mind-blowing! The only downside I can see is if this gets moved to deadly bacteria that start infecting food and other items making everything dangerous to eat or touch. That would really suck😮
And then they said, let's also give it an adamantium skeleton
My guess is this DNA repair wouldn't stop cancer but would stop us being able to kill cancer by most of our methods.
What should we add this gene too?
a) a plant... ❌
b) an animal... ❌
c) a bacterium that can kill humans... ✅
Trust the science. Right?
Yeah right should add it to a cat instead to see if it turns into an anime character.
Bacteria are much easier to use for experiments like these than plants or animals. And E. coli is the model organism of microbiology, so it’s no surprise the researchers defaulted to it.
b) 2) Turtles. It's turtles all the way down. But then they might be Elderly Immutable Ninja Turtles.
It's a ubiquitous bacterium that is also always inside humans. Unless you're irradiating gut bacteria to manage your health I don't think this could change anything lol.
I love Science
Awesome clip gathering that was very easy to digest :)
I am sure there are some great artists that watch Anton; I hope one of them draws a "Conan the bacterium" character for us.
"SPOILER alert". Well done sir!
Great video,very exciting, nice presentation ,thanks 👍🤗
They should definitely try human trials as a last time resort with a cancer patient that's about to die anyway, imagine the consequences for all of us if patient zero becomes completely healthy...
I remember a story from a couple/few decades ago about the development of some kind of enzyme that should've been helpful in the clean-up of large oil spills. Testing in the lab made the scientists extremely excited to the point that they wanted to cease testing and move to practical applications with real world mishaps. Further testing did continue until it was discovered that the enzyme hindered nutrient uptake in the root systems of most plant life on the planet.
Remember, prior to the first a-bomb test it was suggested that the resulting explosion could be anything from a small localised event, to total destruction of the state, country, planet, or even the solar system. Thankfully the attitude back then was "better dead than red" and the test resulted in only a large localised explosion.
What could possibly go wrong?
Thank you
Thanks!
The wonderfulist🎉... thanks 🙏
Thanks Aton!
The sheer amount of time and distance a microbe would have to travel on an asteroid just to get from one habitable planet to another just seems too insane for the 'life came from outer space' hypothesis to have any substance. Surviving the fiery plummet down to Earth's surface also sounds implausible... but who knows?
no one is addressing the elephant in the room when it comes to panspermia: how the hell does the bacteria survive the friction when entering the atmosphere, and also the impact? some of those conditions are often more destructive than a nuclear bomb. also to travel interstellar, the asteroid would have to travel for thousands if not millions of years. what does the bacteria eat during that time?
Could we use it to cure cancer
On the downside, it could effectively neutralize every antibiotic known to man…
Not necessarily. This video says the bacterium is mostly immune to dehydration and damage to dna from radiation. That doesn't mean our immune system or antibiotics couldn't kill the bacterium just as easily.
There are no antibiotics that rely solely upon radiation
@@henriraja8982Exactly. Antibiotics use a wide range of mechanisms to destroy bacteria, many not involving either of those
Thank you Anton
Day 71 asking Anton for the return of What Da Math style videos
How on earth (or elsewhere) can this be possible to work out all the intricacies, let alone 'see it'? Amazing.
What if you inject that microbe into your body do you become a superhero😂😂
If it has to pause, does it first say "I'll be back?"
Cant wait for "immortality coming out by the end of this year" articles
"resilient to mutation" AKA the genes from this microbe could quite literally help 'cure cancer' in humans: most cancers being point-mutation errors in transcription/lation/replication of DNA...IF the genes help to ensure these processes are less error prone THIS COULD be the change that helps people live 'more healthily' to 90+, without many of the infermities of old age.
this bacterium is called immunity
One of the weirdest things I’ve learned about being a human is that a very large part of “me”, is made up of trillions of bacteria, viruses, bacteriophages, and other living organisms. I am a colony organism, in reality. Amazing!
The universe just learned the same thing, that it is populated by trillions of creatures, and among them 8 billions humans from an unknown region of the universe.
“Or if there is a nuclear apocalypse, we’ll definitely come back and talk about this in future videos”
Could it continually repair human DNA if it were implanted in a human
It'd need a hell of a lot of work to manage that. But, it might give us ideas for DNA repair in both birth defect repair and cancer DNA repair.
Not on its own. Genetics is very complex, there's likely a whole host of other genes we'd need before it would work
DNA is like a cassette tape or VHS movie or rele movie, the DNA is the tape. The epigenetics are the part of the tape being played now, they are the movie scene or the song playing. The histone bodies are the actual wheel that the tape is wound around. Methylation of DNA pins it to the wheel so that it can't be played again.
Hopefully this helps you understand the analog nature of epigenetics interplaying with DNA.
I read Deinonychus and was wondering wtf video I was going to watch.
People say Anton has a vast number of intellectuals putting his videos together. But they can't explain his genus speaking to the subjects like no else one imaginable.
Spoiler alert😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh man that straight face😂😂
I would find great if we can find a way to make ourselves as resistant to radiations. Outer space radiation is one of our main hurdles stopping us from becoming a multi planet species. Resistance to desiccation would also make us more resilient to earthly extreme conditions like in deserts
This is an incredible discovery truly.
This might be a new gene to all life. It will certainly spread everywhere now, espscially since they mixed it with E coli already.
I wonder what its affect on cancer will be.
This is so amazing.
This bacteria might allow a future version of our species to live in space with no ill effects.
"Ooo Ooo, I know! Let's make SUPER ecoli !!!
Resistant to damage ? Agriculture? Be very very careful. Remember Kudzu!
If we have this guy attack human telomeres, could this eventually lead to greatly extended human life?
Not attack, rather repair!
"Spoiler alert", lol!
I like the idea of DNA-repair on tap. 😊
so we already have the candidate for the radioactive blob
Much more interesting than Tardigrades
Pretty awesome! I wonder if inserting a similar protein or gene for that protein into humans would reduce the risk of cancer because of the radiation resistance... but it wouldn't make you immune, so if you do develop cancer it would probably suck to not be able to treat it with radiation if the resistance gene was in your cancer, too.
It's the Borg.
Forget stem cell, scientists should jump on this.
Stem cells are far more useful than this and are already well understood enough to use in the medical sector
It's not as simple as just injecting us with a gene that this bacteria uses to make that protein. There'll be a whole host of genes that we'd need before we can make that protein ourselves
Makes you really wonder if the first life on our planet, arrived from outer space?
Tougher then a Tardigrade???? Wow!
Sounds like we could use this for space travel
We start messing with it and create a super virus that is immune to EVERYTHING.
This is how apocalypse movies start.
Yup movies would think a bacterium could develop into a virus. 😂
We need this protein to work 👍👍👍
Tenacious D. Radiodurans