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Posted By Fi5herman 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyA novel bacterium that has been trapped more than three kilometres under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120 000 years, may hold clues as to what life forms might exist on other planets.
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pidaman5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Then it starts growing and begins to absorb/replicate people in the isolated lab. Soon nobody can tell who is bacteria and who is human. If it escapes, the Human race is doomed.......wait wasn't this a movie ?
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With all seriousness, this organism should be controlled under the strictest bio-level rules. It is VERY presumptuous ( and dangerous )to assume that this bacteria is harmless at this time.
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