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Ancient bacteria found in icy caves are resistant to antibiotics.
Scientists have decoded the genome of a bacterium found in an ice cave that is 5,000 years old and discovered that it is resistant to eight classes of modern antibiotics. This finding confirms that mechanisms of drug resistance were developing in nature long before the advent of medicine.
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