• Mendip Rocks, Earth Science Lecture Day

    Mendip Rocks are holding a number of presentations on Saturday 17th October as part of the Earth Science Week. Talks will include:-

    Anjana Khatwa, award winning presenter and writer: "The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth". Vince Simmonds, archeologist and cave explorer: "Echoes of the Ice Age: A Pleistocene Record from Mendip Cave Deposits" Of particular interest will be the recent find, the Woolly Rhino Skull that is now in Wells Museum. Owen Dukes - Geologist (Tarmac) "Mendip Mineral Resources"

    Click here for details

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

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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.
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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

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