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Ice-Age Campion Comes To Life Again

By LarryR
March 18, 2013

Growing at this very moment at the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow is a plant whose original tissue came from a 31,800-year-old specimen of Silene stenophylla (narrow-leafed campion).

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Mar 26, 2013 5:05 AM CST
Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
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Thanks, Renee.

It is wonderful that 'life finds a way". In this case it just took a little help from humans Smiling
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