## Trehalose: used by Tardigrades (anhydrobiosis)... with potential application for cryonics?!?

* Author: u/notmy2ndopinion  *Concent of Saunt Edhar**
* URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18070104
* Score: 2

* Created: 2015-01-08T03:59:41

### Post:

[Link to content](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18070104)

### Comments:

> **u/None** [+4]  (6 hours later)
> 
> You probably meant to put this in /r/LessWrongLounge.

> **u/lsparrish** [+2]  (20 hours later)
> 
> It's technically possible to [transfect human cells](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10657122), through a viral vector, with E. coli genes that make them express trehalose.
> 
> Also this seems to be an area where cryonics and neurodegenerative disease research interests are aligned. For example, there is some interest in using trehalose in the brain as a treatment for [Huntington's](http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v10/n2/abs/nm985.html) and [ALS](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23851366).

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