If they could do this with humans, that would be…what would that be?
…they are capable of entering a state of anhydrobiosis – a condition whereby an organism dries up nearly completely and ceases physiological and biochemical processes. To enter this state, the larvae replace the water in their bodies with disaccharide trehalose. In this state, the larvae can persist for years and remain resistant to such stresses as the effects of liquid nitrogen and acetone.However, until now, it had remained unclear how the genes responsible for this self-drying process were regulated.
