Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Back to the future!

Plants back to life after 30.000 years:
Scientists in Russia have grown plants from fruit stored away in permafrost by squirrels over 30,000 years ago.
The fruit was found in the banks of the Kolmya River in Siberia, a top site for people looking for mammoth bones. The Institute of Cell Biophysics team propagated plants of Silene stenophylla in vitro from the fruit tissues.

the full news on BBC News

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