{"id":553,"date":"2014-03-17T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=553"},"modified":"2014-04-01T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:29:11","slug":"antarctic-moss-returns-to-life-after-1500-years-under-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/antarctic-moss-returns-to-life-after-1500-years-under-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic moss returns to life after 1,500+ years under ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_554\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1172908237_60219ef326_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-554\" alt=\"(Credit: Heather Thorkelson, flickr.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1172908237_60219ef326_o-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1172908237_60219ef326_o-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1172908237_60219ef326_o-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1172908237_60219ef326_o.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: Heather Thorkelson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11709851@N04\/1172908237\/in\/photolist-2MDsKP-2PJrBx-35n4Vv-3bmvXj-3AbGb3-47zWVS-4sM1ZA-4Crss9-59gjCz-59tdWR-5sJbBU-5tFqJg-5A64bR-5Hf91i-5WhEYb-6xb38V-6xb6E6-6xkQNc-6xq3uq-6xrpXP-6xrqCt-6xvyR3-6xvzyA-6xztr6-6xzxik-6xDJgC-6NF8NH-6WdPmZ-71xdcE-74h979-76imCa-7bUrLo-7pehVi-7pi8wA-7xigTK-7xih1K-7xn5GG-bo4pWe-ajzqWS-cHdcMW-dMeJXq-g983sC-aBdGVu-bD7n5u-a2ZM77-cwTmr9-7P9Ucq-8AbAgq-a7zZ3u-7K2sdk-a6BV1D\" target=\"_blank\">flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(14)00086-4\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span> published in the journal\u00a0<em>Current Biology<\/em> on\u00a0<strong>March 17, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Names and affiliations of selected<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> authors<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antarctica.ac.uk\/about_bas\/contact\/staff\/profile\/5872b94e6a8735c4c2624bc9354da816\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Convey<\/a>, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1172908237_60219ef326_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-8V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}