The visions of the bacteria and ability to go to genetic hibernation

 

The visions of the bacteria and ability to go to genetic hibernation

What if our DNA would be in the plasmid or wheel form, and there is the genome, what makes our cells go to hibernation at a certain point? We would be creatures, what are living in cycles. When the DNA has been read, we would go to hibernation as some bacteria do. And that brings interesting ideas in my mind. What if we can transfer that genome in the body of some interstellar astronauts somewhere in the future? The chemical stress by some antibiotics can activate the hibernation as it makes for bacteria, which has this ability(1). 

Scientists found 100 000 000 years old hibernate bacteria from the deep sea, and recovered them back alive(2). That thing causes very interesting visions could there some higher organisms that could hibernate thousands or millions of years. Things like expanding the lifetime by transferring the genome, which makes this kind of hibernation possible to the body of even humans. So the thing is that if we would have the same genome, which makes bacteria possible to survive an extremely long time, there is possible that we could also travel to the other stars in the genetic hibernation. 

The genetic hibernation means that every cell in our body would take the same form, what bacteria takes when it goes to "sleep". The thing is that if we would want to expand our lifetime by transferring this kind of genome in our cells, there must be some kind of reason for that. If we would be in the hibernation, we would be dead for people, and in that condition, we would not be very social. So would we have any kind of benefit in that kind of thing?

Maybe that kind of hibernation is only interesting philosophical thinking about the abilities of genetic engineering. And of course, it gives a good topic for some horror-movies, where the criminal would go in hibernate for 300 and then return to terrorize the community. But the thing is that if researchers would connect the computer in the hibernate body, they could have a possibility to control things like robots or spacecraft by using EEG-waves. 

The genetic hibernation where the cells of the body are acting like bacteria, what are encapsulating is an interesting idea. Genetic engineering makes it possible to connect that genome in the DNA, and that gives the extremely interesting visions in the mind. If that "hibernation genome" is at the end of the DNA, that thing causes the creature would live in cycles. When the genetic code is read, that thing causes that the hibernation starts in cycles, and if the DNA is in the plasmid form that means the organism would wake up in certain cycles. 

(1) https://sciencetranslationblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/bacteria-go-into-hibernation-to-avoid-antibiotics/

(2) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53575103

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