By Andrew Friedman, Tazpit News Agency
Most people may consider the southern tip of the world little more than a frozen wasteland, but Dr. Ido Braslavsky, an associate professor at the Hebrew University’s Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, food and environment in Rehovot, would take issue with that assertion.
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... Braslavsky says that scientists have known for many years that many cold-water plants, fish, insects, and microorganisms produce anti-frost proteins, a sort of natural “antifreeze” that helps them survive at frigid temperatures that would kill other organisms. But he says that the antifreeze protein that is found on a particular marine bacterium that lives under the ice in Antarctica is hundreds of times larger than in other samples found other organisms farther to the north That allows it to stick to the ice layer that covers the lake throughout the year without freezing.