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Ancient ice-borne bacteria resist modern antibiotics

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Ancient ice-borne bacteria resist modern antibiotics
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Researchers thawed a 5,000-year-old bacterium from Romania’s Scarisoara cave and found it resistant to 10 of 28 antibiotics, showing that antibiotic resistance evolved naturally in the environment long before humans. The microbe also carries genes that may help kill other microbes, offering potential avenues for new drugs, though warming glaciers could release unknown ancient microbes.

Topics:worldscience#ancient-bacteria#antibiotic-resistance#ice-cave#psychrobacter-sc65a#scarisoara-cave#science
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  1. Ancient bacteria strain discovered in ice cave is resistant to some modern antibiotics  CNN
  2. Scientists Warn: 5,000-Year-Old Ice Cave Bacteria Resistant to Modern Antibiotics  SciTechDaily
  3. Bacteria Frozen For 5,000 Years Could Fight Superbugs, But There's a Catch  ScienceAlert
  4. 5,000-year-old bacteria thawed in Romanian ice cave  Popular Science
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