This stunning achievement shows that, contrary to popular belief, the
ice crystals that form in frozen tissue do
not necessarily damage the cell
nuclei that hold genetic material.
A recent Science paper (open link here), doesn't quite answer that question, but does provide a strong indicator by measuring the residues from the
ice nuclei from which cirrus clouds form.
However, we caution that these results do
not imply that the
ice formation problem is solved because several unique conditions favored agreement between simulated and observed
ice crystal number concentrations in this case: overlying
ice nucleus concentrations much greater than in - cloud
ice crystal concentrations, very slow - falling
ice crystals, and the possible presence of an
ice nucleus reservoir below a decoupled surface layer.