ScienceDaily (Feb. 10, 2009) — "Two Brigham Young University researchers who just returned from Antarctica are reporting a hardy worm that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze. And when its notoriously dry home runs out of water, it just dries itself out and goes into suspended animation until liquid water brings it back to life."
It continues with: "When water inside a living thing freezes, ice crystals pierce cell walls and kill them. That's what causes "frostbite." It turns out that the worm creates a protein that probably prevents the ice from forming sharp crystals or coats them so they don't puncture anything."
Since this is what destroys human tissue when it is frozen, it must be what would prevent a frozen body from being brought back to life later as some are hoping. However, while the article doesn't branch out that far, it makes me wonder if it will not make a frozen corpse possibly brought back to life sometime in the future when science has solved a few more problems.
Just imagine all the wonderful things to come to those who might still be around!
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