Hydra and Humanized Organisms

Humanized organisms sound disturbing, but are actually really interesting and useful. Changing an organism to make some part more biologically human makes the organism a better model for human disease. I got to thinking about humanized organisms while I was reading about hydra. Hydra make good models to study the biology of aging because they seem to be immortal: they don't seem to age at all. Could we learn more with a humanized hydra? Will we need to kill it with fire?

Allen Lab Vlog #313, 10/10/2021

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[SamMooreVision_for_Humanity]

Kind of ironic that he's videotaping himself while walking next to a GRAVEYARD.

[nickstone]

Hydra mixed with graphene Oxide makes them multiply apparently!!!

[boetiethusi]

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[americanlostinvietnam]

The problem is, introducing hydra into a human or even gene therapy with their replication abilities would potentially be a very serious problem for humans

[petergolley]

May we trust the Lord, and praise his wondrous creation... I Am made of God, in his image. Scientists and quacks are always trying to create something unnatural... May the Lord keep us safe from their madness and evil... Amen! 🙏

[i.n.i]

Just out of curiosity how did all those scientific movies on splicing humans with immortal organisms all work out in the end?

Curiosity I swear is gonna end humanity 😭

[sandrao]

It's in the snake bite.
Mark of the beast! # two witnesses

[Downey-]

The impact of Carbon nano-onions on Hydra vulgaris . They are both in the jab.

[BritishBirdSoT]

I’ve just heard on a channel that the reason for staff shortages in hospitals in 🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧 is because people don’t want do stuff to people they not supposed to!

[MrFmiller]

Conversely would hydra genes make a human immortal?

[TwoPartyIllusion]

Hydra and optogenetics... trials have been ongoing since 09 at MIT

[quinto]

Cmon these are the things from the Facility movie

[PeterAllenLab]

I'm seeing comments here about hydra in the vaccine? That's not credible. I think people might get fooled by aggregates/precipitates in old vaccine samples and then see these weird articles and make false assumptions.

It seems like a lot of this originates with one osteopath doctor. She has made all kinds of false, unfounded claims about the mRNA vaccines. Like how they can change human genes (they can't, mRNA gets degraded) or how they have luciferase in them (she confused fluorescent nanoparticles for a firefly enzyme, and neither are in the vaccine). The whole thing has been debunked by multiple fact checkers:

poynter.org:

healthfeedback.org:

Vice media:

Anyway, my comment sections are not a place for anti-vaccine stuff. Get vaccinated. I did. In April.