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From: Ethical and social implications of approaching death prediction in humans - when the biology of ageing meets existential issues

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Smurf drosophila and in septic human beings. (left) picture of age-matched Drosophila melanogaster males that underwent the Smurf assay. In non-Smurf individuals, the blue dye is restricted to the digestive tract while in smurf individuals - showing a high risk of impending death - the blue coloration is extended to the whole body. (right) Intestinal permeability - to the blue dye #1 used in the drosophila Smurf Assay - in septic (or not) humans, 2 and 8 h after dye administration as reported in Angarita, S. A. K. et al. Quantitative Measure of Intestinal Permeability Using Blue Food Coloring. J. Surg. Res. 233, 20–25 (2019)

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