Researchers led by Sayaka Wakayama from the University of Yamanashi in Japan have for the first time cloned animals from freeze-dried skin cells, but this technique still has a low success rate.
Freeze drying is a technique that truly outperforms its (relatively) little weight. In addition to providing astronauts with more food options and making for a delicious chocolate-covered strawberry, the technology may now be used to store DNA and cell information for cloning.
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