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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if there are medical applications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Humans don't have this ability, which is why nitrogen hypoxia is so scary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The research paper seems to indicate that we do, but to an extremely limited extent compared to seals, according to my wildly uneducated reading of it. I think that's what I'm getting at. I wonder if there's a way to buff that stat with technology to make us, at least temporarily, more resistant to hypoxia.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq4921