The new National Biodiversity Cryobank of Canada is now the country's central repository for tissue and DNA samples, and will help support biodiversity projects in Canada and around the world. The new National Biodiversity Cryobank of Canada is the country's central repository for tissue and DNA samples, and will help support biodiversity projects in Canada and around the world. (Hallie Cotnam/CBC)"At this temperature, molecules in the tissue samples we'll be storing are super well preserved. All molecular movement is slowed right down, so DNA ... will be preserved in perpetuity," Bull told CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning. These boxes contain 7,000 tissue and DNA samples from Parks Canada.

Source: CBC News September 18, 2018 14:26 UTC