Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Here's a neat little story about frozen frogs. The basic idea is this: wood frogs freeze solid over the winter, though that's not a problem since they can keep ice out of their cells (otherwise, all those ice crystals can really mess up those frog tissues). They do it by using glucose as a cryoprotectant and a specialized glycolipid as an antifreeze.

The paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology is here.

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