Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins into Human Cells. Here's What Happened

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

I hate clickbait titles like this.

Guess all we need to do now is build a spore drive, and go anywhere in the multiverse in an instant.

Hopefully they didn&#x27;t do this with HeLa cells.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HeLa#Contamination" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HeLa#Contamination</a><p>I can imagine the contamination issue would only be made worse...

What could go wrong?<p>I&#x27;m wondering why they took the jump to human in vitro studies - did they do murine studies first?