Bacteria Frozen in Ancient Underground Ice Cave Found to be Resistant Against 10 Modern Antibiotics

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• uberdroog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Feed it to RFK Jr.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t.

    There are two scenarios:

    1. he will spread it to his followers and it will kill millions
    2. the brain worms will just eat the bacteria, rendering this whole test pointless

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    • sleepmode@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought the bear worm found nothing to eat so it died.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well fuck. Add another contender to the apocalypse bingo, why not.

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• Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It didn’t answer the most important question which is, Are they pathogenic?

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  • dgdft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It did.

    Psychrobacter SC65A.3 is a strain of the genus Psychrobacter, which are bacteria adapted to cold environments. Some species can cause infections in humans or animals.

    If it’s not immediately obvious: The intended takeaway is that this particular strain probably isn’t pathogenic itself, but it’s completely plausible that such resistance can spread via HGT to pathogenic species, within the genus or not.

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    • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That didn’t answer whether these particular bacteria are pathogenic.

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• certified_expert@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It comes from a Cave at the northwest of Romania. So it may as well be a bacteria that turns you into a vampire or something…

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• certified_expert@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are a huge number of bacteria that do absolutely nothing to humans.

  Is this one of them?

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  • assembly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe we just refreeze it and keep that a mystery. What part of 2026 has anyone thinking we’re going to have any kind of good luck this year? This ain’t the year to shoot your shot.

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  • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    28 days later…

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• Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• discocactus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honey! New pandemic just dropped!!

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