Chinese team behind extreme animal gene experiment says it may lead to super soldiers who survive nuclear fallout

South China Morning Post ^ | 03/31/2023 | Stephen Chen

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* Modified human embryonic stem cells showed supernatural resistance against radiation, according to paper by Academy of Military Sciences team in Beijing

* Shanghai-based scientist says study may open a can of worms, particularly when funding is involved

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A team of military medical scientists in China says it has inserted a gene from the microscopic water bear into human embryonic stem cells and significantly increased these cells’ resistance to radiation.

They said success in this unprecedented experiment could lead to super-tough soldiers who could survive nuclear fallout.

The project was first unveiled in the Chinese-language journal, Military Medical Sciences, and has been gaining more and more media attention and interest within the scientific community, but is also raising serious ethical quandaries, despite the experiment being defended by its overseers as "totally legal".

According to details, the military scientists say they've successfully "inserted a gene from the microscopic water bear into human embryonic stem cells and significantly increased these cells’ resistance to radiation."

"They said success in this unprecedented experiment could lead to super-tough soldiers who could survive nuclear fallout," SCMP writes. The initiative involved the experimental introduction into human DNA (utilizing embryonic cells) of a key gene found the water bear. The gene in question gives the microscopic creature rare resistance to radiation and other extreme environmental effects.

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Scientists have long considered that water bears, also known as tardigrades, may hold genetic secrets which could one day be key to human survival and longevity. The eight-legged tiny animal which is smaller than a millimeter in length, has been described as follows:

Tardigrades are tiny, cute and virtually indestructible. The microscopic animals are able to survive in a pot of boiling water, at the bottom of a deep-sea trench or even in the cold, dark vacuum of space. In August, an Israeli spacecraft carrying tardigrades as part of a scientific experiment crashed on the moon, and scientists believe they may have survived.

Having isolated the Tardigrade's gene capable of producing shieldlike proteins which can protect against radiation and other harms, the Chinese team said it "found a way to introduce this gene into human DNA using CRISPR/Cas9, a gene-editing tool now available in most bio-labs," according to the SCMP review of the experiment.

"In their laboratory experiment, nearly 90 per cent of the human embryonic cells carrying the water bear gene survived a lethal exposure to X-ray radiation, according to the team led by professor Yue Wen with the radiation biotechnology laboratory at the Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing," the report continues.

[Bullish]

Well, let’s just nuke them and find out, huh?

[PGR88]

Good luck with that. I’m morbidly curious to see the results of those experiments - not that China won’t try, though

The mRna vax that was deemed perfectly safe has caused millions of health problems, tripled miscarriage rates, etc...

Now imagine the effects of government-sponsored insect-human gene-therapy to reduce the effects of radiation?

[chrisser]

The problem is that fallout is basically the remains of everything that would have made surviving worth it.

[SeekAndFind]

Super Soldier?

Instead of a Captain America, we’ll see a Captain China!

Who woulda thunk ???

[alexander_busek]

Qarlo Gopriggny approves!

Regards,

[indthkr]

"may lead to super soldiers who survive nuclear fallout"

Laughable

[Jeff Chandler]

Do you want zombies? Because that’s how you get zombies.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yes because wouldn’t you want to live in a world full of nuclear fallout?

I mean, isn’t that living the dream, people?

/Omfg sarc

[Larry Lucido]

They report that it also reverses hair loss.

[SpaceBar]

Mutant mongoloids sifting over the glowing rubble. Sounds just dandy.

[Qwapisking]

“SOLDIER”...Kurt Russell style. Same type of leaders too.

[OHPatriot]

So tell me again that COVID wasn’t a Chinese Bio-weapon.

Now they are tinkering with super soldiers. Can we please Nuke Them Now before these experiments get too far.

[PIF]

The US, in past budgets, spent some $200 million on Precision Medicine. China, in the same period, spent $9.2 billion.

[The Duke]

WHAT_COULD_GO_WRONG_PING!

[Mark17]

Good question.

[jagusafr]

What could possibly go wrong? /s

[Theophilus 7]

So, what is the plan?
https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/

[tet68]

They would have to retool all the uniforms for six limbs ?