#glacial-microbiome

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19 hours ago

A bacterium frozen 5,000 years ago has been found capable of standing up to super-pathogens

A 5,000-year-old Psychrobacter strain recovered from Romanian cave ice displays resistance to multiple modern antibiotics and produces compounds that inhibit other, hard-to-treat pathogens.
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