ScrAPES#10: Scientist Injects Himself with 3.5 Million Year Old Bacteria
by Mark Prigg
September 30, 2015
Anatoli Brouchkov is a Russian scientist at Moscow State University. Recently he found a bacteria in Mammoth Mountain in Sahka Republic or Yakutia in Serbia. The bacteria is named Bacillus F, and has been alive for millions of years being embedded on permafrost. Scientist tested it on experimental animals, but Dr. Brouchkov wanted to test it upon himself as well. His feedback to the bacteria was that he felt stronger and healthier. Elderly mices became more active and began to produce offspring. Scientists say that the bacteria may improve human health.
This outstanding article or news is interesting to me because I think it is pretty awesome that there has been a bacteria out there for millions of years, untouched, and still living. I wonder what the bacteria feels being alive for years and years and years. What surprised me actually was that the bacteria survived in a sovereign climate. Serbia's world record coldest temperature was -31.9 degrees in 1985, and it could go up to 112.8 degrees boiling hot. The bacteria most likely has a very good adaptability to be able to survive these temperatures.
This relates to the environment because if this bacteria was literally true fact then it could save the human kind. We could cure cancer, diseases, sickness, etc. Also the bacteria could cure genetic mutations or diseases like progeria or the "tree man", with a rare condition of Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis. We may also be able to cure mental illness (if we actually can). This would most likely also save us from tragic disasters and prevent us from death. Humans will be healthier and the healthier we are, the better we feel, and the less likely we go to the doctors. But this would also effect our Crude Death Rate (CDR) because with people healthy and very less likely to die, the Crude Death Rate would decrease. Our population of seven billion will soon blossom even more.
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