Earth and Science | April 22, 2011 | 1 comment

"The Thing": A 140,000-Year-Old Organism Discovered in Antarctica's Ice-Shrouded Lake Vostok

source: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/the-thing-140000-year-old-organism-discovered-u...

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An ancient living laboratory of our planet's past in Antarctica may have provided a preview of what we can expect to find deep below the barren surface of Mars and in the ice-shrouded seas of Jupiter's Europa. Two of the world's leading experts on life at the lower temperature extremes, Buford Price of the University of California, Berkeley and Todd Sowers of Penn State observed that microbes colonizing life appear to have two levels of metabolism: a survival metabolism in which they remain alive but become dormant until exposed to nutrients or higher temperatures, or, a maintenance metabolism for steady sustained growth.
LINK : http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/the-thing-140000-year-old-organism-...
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