A recent article claims Chinese military scientists increased the radiation tolerance of human cells by inserting tardigrade DNA -- did this really happen?
Hi Andrew, thanks for covering this story, well written and dissected. I was wondering if you have the original paper? It does not matter that it is in Manderin!
Worth mentioning that Ref [8] in the Chinese paper, by Hashimoto et al, published in 2016, already reported increased tolerance to radiation by human cells which had received a tardigrade protein (not a gene)
The title of the Chinese paper is:
Biological effects of damage suppressor gene（Dsup） expression on human embryonic stem cells
https://jsyx.magtechjournal.com/EN/10.7644/j.issn.1674-9960.2023.05.002
Download PDF here:
https://jsyx.magtechjournal.com/EN/volumn/volumn_94.shtml
Hi Andrew, thanks for covering this story, well written and dissected. I was wondering if you have the original paper? It does not matter that it is in Manderin!
Thanks again
Worth mentioning that Ref [8] in the Chinese paper, by Hashimoto et al, published in 2016, already reported increased tolerance to radiation by human cells which had received a tardigrade protein (not a gene)
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12808