2023-08-03 17:11:18
UThe scientific world is now discussing regarding a person who woke up from a long sleep. A worm has come back to life following sleeping comfortably for regarding 46000 years! If we wake up more than usual, we find it difficult to recognize the place, time and time, don’t we? Whether it is morning, evening or a day has passed, many doubts may be felt. But what if he wakes up following a long sleep of forty six thousand years?
It sounds surprising, but in fact the scientific world is talking regarding a person who has woken up from an age-long sleep. Neither man nor animal, but a worm slept soundly for regarding 46,000 years. The worm has been living dormant for so long in the thick layers of permafrost in Siberia. When the scientists succeeded in waking it up from this deep sleep, the sleep and the subsequent awakening made headlines.
The professor at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany, who led the study, says that it is an organism that deserves to get the Guinness World Record for coming back to life following sleeping for a long time. How can worms stay asleep for so long? This is helped by a characteristic of worms called cryptobiosis. Such worms can slow down the body’s metabolism beyond recognition for long periods of time. At this time, the worms are in such a deep sleep that they cannot even recognize whether they are alive or not.
During this time, they do not move, produce offspring, take in water or oxygen, or digest food. They can survive any temperature, both high and low. It can also live in salt water. In short, if you ask if there is life, yes, if you ask if there is no, no. This ability of them to stay in the thread bridge between life and death has caused a great surprise to the scientific world.
Scientists believe that studying these organisms will shed more light on resilience and efforts to protect species that are adversely affected by climate change. Meanwhile, another discussion is active. The basis of the discussion is whether there is a possibility of a threat to the world itself by awakening such unknown species. The world is still not completely free from the epidemic of Kovid. Then their argument is that if such organisms are carriers of unknown pathogens or pathogens, the danger that may be created should also be considered.
A worm woke up from a sleep of regarding 46000 years!
The permafrost of Siberia, where the worm was found, has been something that has scared scientists for ages. These are the age-old ice sheets of the Arctic region where soil and snow are mixed. The prehistoric viruses and bacteria hidden within it might cause a major disaster if they were to break free. The scientific world is watching with horror the situation where these bacteria spread outside following the snow melts.
In 2016, the cause of a large anthrax outbreak in the Yamal region of Siberia, which is part of the polar region, was the body of an anthrax-infected deer that had gone to the snow years ago. Micro-organisms preserved by permafrost in this way have been found before. In 2005, NASA researchers discovered some 32,000-year-old micro-organisms and in 2014, scientists discovered and activated larger viruses such as Pithovirus and Mollivirus from the permafrost.
But none of these are dangerous to humans. However, not all viruses here are necessarily like this. Perhaps as far back as the early Neanderthals, the bodies of those who had died of some sort of virus over the centuries lay frozen here. If this comes out we may face many things that are unfamiliar to us.
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