[Animals] Surprising: scientists make an animal can live without breathing

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The most recent study by a group of researchers from the University of Munich, in Germany, has just confirmed the po[CENSORED]r idea that "science has no limits."

In the article in question, published on October 13 in the prestigious journal 'iScience', the researchers developed an experiment in which, after innovative surgeries, they succeeded in enabling a frog to survive despite having no way of breathing.

With only days in fact shared, the incredible feat has been highlighted by some experts as an advance that, in the future, could represent the bases of a similar process in more complex multicellular beings such as humans.

 

 

Interested in the dependence of O2 for neuronal activity in vertebrates, the researchers took specimens of African clawed frogs to investigate possible reactions during severe hypoxic situations.

To this end, they deliberately suspended the brain function of some of the Xenopus laevis.

Taking the animals in that state, the idea was to test ways that allow oxygenation essential for their vital development.

Under this logic, taking into consideration that green algae and cyanobacteria are capable of producing oxygen through the natural process of photosynthesis, a surgical insertion of tiny organisms was presented as the process to follow to achieve the task.

 

LINK: https://www.eltiempo.com/vida/ciencia/ciencia-rana-respira-gracias-a-la-fotosintesis-de-algas-y-bacterias-626291