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#NoMakeup Fail, Photosynthetic Frogs, Why Atoms Don’t Collapse

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Photo Synthetic Tadpoles

A team of scientists in germany made photo synthetic fro s. The tadpoles were a bunch of baby african clawed frogs, which you might remember from our episode about frogs being one of the earliest forms of pregnancy testing. Researchers injected the animals with microbes that rely on photo synthesis either green algie or blue green algie and then removed oxygen from their water tanks. They believe this finding could potentially lead to clinical treatment in cases where brain is deprived of oxygen. But it's worth noting that what's true for tadpoles and salamanders very likely won't hold up for humans since we are much larger and less transparent.

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