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Russell Vreeland, and colleagues from West Chester University in Pennsylvania, reported on October 18 that they had revived Bacillus permians halobacteria from a cavern in New Mexico. The halobacteria ("salt bacteria") were found preserved in sodium chloride crystals, thought to be 250 million years old.
Full story at Yahoo/Reuters:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001018/sc/bacteria_creature_dc_1.html
BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_978000/978774.stm
The findings are also published in Nature.
BI.O News report on the genome sequencing of the NRC-1 halobacterium:
http://bioinformatics.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=258
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