Cryonics enthusiasts will be pleased to hear that scientists have demonstrated the ability to revive frozen life not just after a couple years or even a couple of decades. They can bring something back to life that’s been frozen for fifteen centuries. The previous record was just 20 years.
A team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Reading explain in a new report in Current Biology that they managed to revive a patch of moss that had been trapped under antarctic ice for 1,500 years. In the words of the British Antarctic Survey’s Peter Convey, the plants “were basically in a very long-term deep freeze.” That means that this moss last saw the light of day not long after the fall of the Roman Empire. That’s old moss!
via Gizmodo
