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Bacteria from 5,000-year-old ice fight drug-resistant pathogens

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Bacteria recovered from 5,000-year-old Romanian ice showed antimicrobial activity against fourteen ESKAPE-group pathogens including MRSA, while Element Biosciences announced $100-per-genome sequencing.

Reported metric: $100/genome

Reporting date: 2026-02-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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Bacteria from 5,000-year-old ice fight drug-resistant pathogens
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Reporting date: 2026-02-23
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-23-5000-year-old-bacteria-fight-mrsa
Claim: Bacteria recovered from 5,000-year-old Romanian ice showed antimicrobial activity against fourteen ESKAPE-group pathogens including MRSA, while Element Biosciences announced $100-per-genome sequencing.
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- Welcome to February 23, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-23-2026
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