by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 27, 2007 | Ancient genomics, Genes, Ice, Resuscitation
How do bacteria survive encased in ice for millions of years? Scientist used to believe the genetic material was essentially frozen in stasis. New studies suggest that in order to stay viable the bacteria must undergo continual DNA repair over the many long years of...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 12, 2007 | Ancient genomics, Genes, Ice, Resuscitation
In the Dry Valleys of the Transantarctic Mountains there are pockets of ice up to 8 million years old. Last week, scientists announced that they resuscitated microbes from this ice. If the microbes are as old as the ice, they were around long before humans split from...
