Bacterial strain from 5,000-year-old cave ice shows resistance against 10 modern antibiotics

[alanw]

Ancient bacteria from 5,000-year-old ice reveals clues to fighting superbugs

Five-thousand-year-old microbes reveal nature’s antibiotic arms race, and hold clues to both the threat of drug resistance and the cure.

theconversation.com

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-bacterial-strain-year-cave-ice.html

First genome sequence and functional profiling of Psychrobacter SC65A.3 preserved in 5,000-year-old cave ice: insights into ancient resistome, antimicrobial potential, and enzymatic activities

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1713017/full

 

[caving_fox]

Isn't this similar to what Hazel Barton found in the US deep aquifer waters? Bacteria have long long since been competing with each other and any of our modern medical cures derived from natural sources will likely have been previously encountered with resistance remaining in the genomes.

 

[mrodoc]

Isn't this similar to what Hazel Barton found in the US deep aquifer waters? Bacteria have long long since been competing with each other and any of our modern medical cures derived from natural sources will likely have been previously encountered with resistance remaining in the genomes.

Taken the pen our of hand metaphorically speaking. I found her teams finding fascinating.