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Could Frozen Seeds Save the Future? Scientists Bring a 32,000-year-old Seed Back to Life

22 March, 2017 - 17:52 Kerry Sullivan

Could Frozen Seeds Save the Future? Scientists Bring a 32,000-year-old Seed Back to Life

Far away on the remote island of Spitsbergen in the Artic Svalbard archipelago lies humanity’s fail-safe storage of seeds. With the threat of natural and man-made disasters looming in the future, the...