Under the right circumstances, one can
preserve leaf cells and the like for millions of years — but the chemistry will change, they will become carbonized.
Not exact matches
Permafrost had
preserved tissue from one species — a narrow -
leafed campion plant — exceptionally well, so researchers at the Russian Academy of Sciences recently decided to culture the
cells to see if they would grow.
They chose this region because it has a large number of
cells and because the bird's feet hadn't been treated with arsenic,
leaving the DNA there in better shape than on the rest of the
preserved carcass.
Perfectly
preserved cells of
leaves have been found, as well as the
preserved soft tissue of eyeballs in the eye sockets of some of the extinct marsupials.
Cell temperatures of the young
leaves remain low to ensure the raw food properties of heat sensitive nutrients are
preserved.