Via boingboing:
Extremophiles comprise principally bacteria, which have the remarkable ability to thrive in conditions that would be hazardous to other lifeforms - extremes of temperature, radiation, salinity, and metal toxicity...
One promising discovery is a glycoprotein which prevents Antarctic fish from freezing... Other Antarctic discoveries include an extract from green algae for use in cosmetic skin treatment, and anti-tumour properties in a strain of yeast.
Read the Original BBC story.
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Reality is a disappointment
This kind of thing was much vaunted about 5 years ago when I got into the field (before hurriedly getting out and into bioinformatics).
Abysmal web efforts such as this page and associated poorly-presented non-results confirm my cynicism.