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Researchers were able to revive and grow 1500 year-old Antarctic mosses which stayed inactive under the ice. Prior to this finding, regeneration from frozen plant material had only been successfully demonstrated after a maximum 20 years. Until now only microbes had been shown to be capable of revival after so many years on hold.
Original research paper published in the journal Current Biology on March 17, 2014.
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