Food for thought: Penrose v Ellis (3)

Food for thought: Penrose v Ellis (2)
Thanks to Magnus S. Magnusson for calling my attention to this. He claimed it is an example of wonderful science. It is an example of pseudoscientific nonsense!
We Can Now Harness the Tardigrade’s Strangest Superpower – and Give It to Other Organisms

…tardigrades produce a special type of ‘bioglass’ that holds their essential proteins and molecules in a suspended state until they’re rehydrated back to life.

The nutrient energy-dependent de novo creation of the “bioglass” that holds essential proteins must sometimes be hydrophobic and sometimes be hydrophiic to link ecological variation to ecological adaptation via the physiology of reproduction. The nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction biophysically constrains energy-dependent viral latency in the supercoiled DNA of all living genera.
Negative supercoiling associated with hydrophilic DNA permits virus-driven energy theft and proliferation of viruses that degrade messenger RNA.  Obviously, the amount of food an water that is available to this model organism link it from the viral hecatomb to all pathology and from polycombic ecological adaptation to its healthy longevity in diverse environments.
When the viral load increases for other cell type, apoptosis provides needed food for the tardigrades and other organisms that eat DNA. Evidence of the switch from eating DNA to storing it while waiting for rehydration is the key to the pH balance that is the key to life.
pH links the epigenetic landscape to the physical landscape of DNA via biophysically constrained RNA-mediated protein folding chemistry. Inventing the term “bioglass” in the context of biophysically constrained protein folding chemistry leaves a missing piece out of the construction of proteins. Nutrient-dependent amino acids are the building blocks of proteins
The story-telling about bioglass is a lot like the “Just So” stories of all biologically uninformed theorists. In this case the authors start with the automagical creation of “bioglass” and link it to drug development. That’s how story-tellers get their funding.
Still, they must invent new words to get past the fact that viruses cause mutations and all pathology. No mutations are beneficial, which means the “bioglass” must be beneficial to the tardigrades. Truthfully, nutrient-dependent RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions are the source of all energy-dependent benefits linked to ecological adaptation via pH.
The problem with claims about intrinsically disordered proteins is that Boothby et al., (2015) showed that this model organism ecologically adapts by ingesting DNA. That fact links the de novo creation of nucleic acid precursors to all biodiversity on Earth.
See:  A huge chunk of a tardigrade’s genome comes from foreign DNA
The foreign DNA is released when virus-driven energy theft causes the death by apoptosis of microbes that failed to adapt. Adaptation is nutrient-dependent, pheromone-controlled and biophysically constrained by RNA-mediated protein folding chemistry, which occurs in species that survive.