Ancient Ice Reveals a 5,000-Year-Old Drug-Resistant Bacterium
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A 5,000-year-old Psychrobacter bacterium retrieved from the Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania is resistant to 10 antibiotics and carries more than 100 resistance genes, showing that antibiotic resistance evolved naturally long before modern antibiotics and highlighting the dual risks and opportunities of melting ice for public health and drug discovery.
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