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

[SeekAndFind]

* 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.

[daniel1212]

Neutron bomb safe?

[Rappini]

Mogadishu Drill should fix their solders.

[Vaduz]

Modified human almost worked still working on the fined feet and webbed paw issues.

[dennisw]

Wut??