Frozen fruit fly larva brings us one step closer to cryogenics

It ’s been adream for years — freezing your body at the moment of death , so that you may be revived later on , when aesculapian science has get ahead enough to heal you , and possibly regenerate you as well .

https://gizmodo.com/man-who-vowed-to-live-forever-died-over-the-weekend-5824586

And now , scientist may have wreak the growth of real cryogenics a bit closer — by making one mintage of louse a mo more insubordinate to being freeze .

Hostinger Coupon Code 15% Off

Drosophila melanogaster , the common fruit fly sheet , ca n’t handle being stop dead as well as some other insects can . But by exposing their larvae to specific temperatures , and give them a certain diet , researchers havefound a way to make yield fly survivedown to -5 ° C , where half their body water froze .

First , the larvae are acclimate to a fluctuating thermal regimen ( FTR ) of temperature between 6˚C and 11˚C. Second , they were fed a diet with additional of the amino dose proline , a known cryoprotectant . Neither of these was very effective on their own — but together , they massively amped up the survival of the fittest rate of the insect . Unfortunately , even thus meliorate , only 9 % of the larvae grew to adult that could create viable offspring , but it ’s a start .

Practically , this could help preserve a issue of species ’ genetic line that are used commonly in research lab throughout the human race . However , I prefer to think of it as small step towards freeze our dead body , and shooting us off into space . Now , where are my proline tablets ?

Burning Blade Tavern Epic Universe