C1ay Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 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. Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, and his colleagues extracted DNA and bacteria from ice found between 3 and 5 metres beneath the surface of a glacier in the Beacon and Mullins valleys of Antarctica. The ice gets older as it flows down the valleys and the researchers took five samples that were between 100,000 and 8 million years old.... More at NewScientist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarantism Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 whoa. that's pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raghu Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 'Cool' ? I'd rather say...... 'frigid' ! (get it?) :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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