HONG KONG: In 2009, a 3.5-million-year-old bacteria strain called Bacillus F was discovered deep in the permafrost of Siberia’s Sakha Republic, per Medical Daily.
Scientists soon after found that mice and fruit flies exposed to the bacteria seemed to get a boost to their immune systems, leading to longer lives and fertility even into old age.
So, naturally, Anatoli Brouchkov, the head of the geocryology department at Moscow State University, decided to take it a step further.
“After successful experiments on [the] mice and fruit flies, I thought it would be interesting to try the inactivated bacterial culture [on myself],” he tells the Siberian Times.
In effect, he’s making him a human guinea pig to see how what the newspaper calls “eternal life” bacteria protects against cell damage and may hold the key to longevity.
“I would say, there exist [in the world] immortal bacteria, immortal beings,” he tells Medical Daily.
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