Can You Explain The Work Of Professor Hand In The Field Of Medicine?

Professor Hand of the University of California in the Davis has discovered is behind this natural secret. He has investigated the embryos of this shrimp specie which can withstand almost anything if they are frozen or dried out. They can be left lying about for years in the dry state, where they are give and impression of being dead. There are other life forms, some shellfish and desert plants that fall into this state as well.

When these organisms allow remaining desiccated over a long period and are then put in water, they grown into the perfect life's form. Just like instant coffee, when you add water you have aromatic coffee, explains professor Hand. He discovered that these shrimp embryos store their enzymes in a viscose liquid containing trehalose, a sugar. This sugar syrup protects the enzymes from both cold and desiccation.

Professor Hand then dissolved other normally very temperature sensitive enzymes in a trehalose/zinc solution, froze them thawed them, refroze them and thawed then once again, and came to the conclusion that even repetition of this procedure caused almost no alteration in the enzymatic activity. It is likely that this new method will find many applications once its initial problems have been solved. It could make it possible to stabilize even the very temperature sensitive insulin.

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