Sounds like amazing biodiversity sequencing projects coming up in 2013-2014! Would…

Sounds like amazing biodiversity sequencing projects coming up in 2013-2014! Would be interesting to see how much novel sequence we can get out of there and how similar samples from this lake are from other sources in that area that weren't shut off the rest of the world by ice!

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The truth behind the Lake Vostok story – no lake samples yet:
After two decades of chilly drilling and fiery debate, a Russian team has finally broken into Lake Vostok. The largest of the lakes hidden under Antarctica’s ice, and the most deeply buried, Vostok has been isolated for millions of years and may contain specially adapted microorganisms.
Although the Russian scientists have taken samples, which are most likely to be from a pocket of water just above the lake (one container was presented to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with great fanfare), they will have to wait until December to extract any frozen lake samples, and until 2013–14 to retrieve unfrozen lake water.

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Russians celebrate Vostok victory : Nature News & Comment
Team finally drills into biggest Antarctic subglacial lake.

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