Antibiotic resistance found in ancient bacteria

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

The same genes that make disease-causing bacteria resistant to today's antibiotics have been found in soil bacteria that have remained frozen since woolly mammoths roamed the Yukon.

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