Could this be beneficial to Cryonics?
Microbes Awakened from 3-Millennia Slumber
By Charles Choi
December 17, 2002
"These life forms may possess novel ice-active substances, such as antifreezes and ice nucleation inhibitors, that allow the organisms to survive the freeze-thaw cycles and come back to life when exposed to liquid water," said MSU researcher John Priscu.
Researchers have revived microbes that spent nearly three millennia at the bottom of an ice-sealed, extremely salty lake in Antarctica, they reported Monday.
This is the first time such a combination of extremes in cold, salt -- some seven times saltier than Earth's oceans -- and darkness has been known to yield life, the researchers said. Unraveling the biochemistry of how these germs survived might shed light not only on the origins of life on Earth, but how alien life might still exist on Mars.
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