The team focused on a particular protein called CAHS D, already known to protect against extreme drying (desiccation).
I hate clickbait titles like this.
Guess all we need to do now is build a spore drive, and go anywhere in the multiverse in an instant.
Hopefully they didn't do this with HeLa cells.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#Contamination
I can imagine the contamination issue would only be made worse...
What could go wrong?
I'm wondering why they took the jump to human in vitro studies - did they do murine studies first?
Answer: It slowed down the metabolism of the cell. It was lethal.