Man injects himself with 3.5 million year old bacteria in quest for eternal life

[jos]

There’s a scientist in Russia who has injected himself with a 3.5 million year old bacteria in his quest for eternal life. Anatoli Brouchkov is the head of the Geocryology Department at Moscow State University. After the discovery of  Bacillus F, which managed to survive for millions of years, scientists decided to test it on fruit flies and mice to see what effects it would have. It did allow for older mice to reproduce after they had gone past their prime, and even showed regenerative properties in plants. Testing on lab animals wasn’t doing it for ol’ Brouchkov, so he decided to turn into Patient Zero and injected himself with Bacillus F. The results? He hasn’t had the flu in over two years.

http://www.geek.com/news/man-injects-himself-with-3-5-million-year-old-bacteria-in-quest-for-eternal-life-1635401/

Hope he wont live after dead as zombie...

[noisebomb44]

Next generation of drugs

 

action movies predicted it

[ShadowCaptain]

Well holy fuck indeed

[PlayStation 2]

fuckin' russians, man

[Guest]

0.o

 

But what if it actually works and your body still ages?

[Thorium19]

I thought this was like the last few days and was gonna say that he'll drop dead in a week, but if he's been going without being ill for 2 years then that's very interesting indeed.

[christianled59]

I haven't had the flu in 5 years. I guess Im immortal.

[The Cool n00B]

I haven't had the flu in two years either. I haven't had it at all, actually.

[Leonard]

Someone better GPStag this nut and quarantine him.

[Kalle Hänninen]

I prefer sucking blood out of babies to injecting myself with who knows what.

[You_are_a_cunt]

inb4 we found out that the bacteria took over control of his body and is fully sentient and is just controlling his corpse like a puppet

[as96]

Maybe that's gonna start a zombie apocalypse.

 

/s

 

But really that's pretty stupid, why the hell did he go from plants directly to human testing, I guess the bacteria wasn't the only thing he injected himself with.

[SeriouslyMikey]

I've never had the flu. Guess I was born immortal. 

[ThatOneRussian]

fuck you guys lol 

Edit : Thats my uncle

[as96]

fuck you guys lol 

Edit : Thats my uncle

lol

[Yuval]

So it begins

[ThatOneRussian]

Should we talk about Florida Man

[typographie]

The results? He hasn’t had the flu in over two years.

 

I haven't had the flu (actual influenza anyway) in 31 years.

 

I feel like we've studied influenza to the point where over the course of two years they'd probably have some hypothesis as to what about this bacteria is doing to inhibit the influenza virus, if indeed that's what it's doing.

[DarkBlade2117]

Lets see what happens in 25 years.

[Slash003]

I havent had the flu for over 8 years. Move along.

[bcredeur97]

I haven't had the flu in 18 years...

Yes... Since I've been alive on this planet.

Who's immortal now?

[jos]

fuck you guys lol 

Edit : Thats my uncle

Really... then your family will be having a good laugh.. reading the comments..

[Nup]

No way! 

 

When i read the title i though it was just some kinda sad story about a nutter who gave himself malaria, or something along those lines but this is pretty interesting stuff. Hot damn. 

[Trik'Stari]

Hard to get the flu when all the plasma in your blood is actually vodka.

[cluelessgenius]

very interesting but since the people living there take it in through the water and are not immortal im kinda bumned out. i fear this is gonna do nothing to him