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| Eight-million-year-old bug is alive and growing |
| 2007-08-08 |
 I've seen that movie, it doesn't end well.An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers. If confirmed, this means ancient bacteria and viruses will come back to life as ice melts due to global warming. This is nothing to worry about, say experts, because the process has been going on for billions of years and the bugs are unlikely to cause human disease. Yeah, right. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #4 I, for one, welcome our once and future microbial overlords! |
| Posted by: DanNY 2007-08-08 23:36 |
| #3 and there was this answer to it: Repost re: possible reservoir for Ebola/Marburg Mary P. Remington mremingt at UMABNET.AB.UMD.EDU Mon May 15 07:50:08 EST 1995 Perhaps the RNA would be lost but, the proviral DNA (assuming Ebola behaves as for instance other Lentiviruses) could persist and if incorporated into a cell or wound become infectious. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-08-08 15:19 |
| #2 there is this article that is now suffering from lack of interest... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-08-08 15:06 |
| #1 Let's allow them to continue to grow. Maybe we can come up with a better "strain" of politician. |
| Posted by: WolfDog 2007-08-08 15:05 |