Microbes Solving Macro-Problems: Bacteria Used to Fight Global Warming

A newly discovered type of bacteria may save humanity from the catastrophic aftermath of global warming when all the Arctic ice melts, US researchers say.

Bacterias podrían dañar un siglo de avances médicos.

El desarrollo de fármacos en épocas pasadas se llevaba a cabo al mismo ritmo que la evolución de los microbios y existía una línea de producción de nuevos tipos de antibióticos constante.

 La existencia de cepas de bacterias resistentes a los antibióticos representa una de las amenazas más graves a la salud y podrían echar por la borda los avances médicos logrados en el último siglo.

Las tasas de mortalidad por infección bacteriana "podrían volver a los niveles existentes a principios del siglo XX", reveló un estudio publicado en la revista médica The Lancet.

Evidence of 3.5-billion-year-old bacterial ecosystems may be earliest sign of life on Earth.

Scientists have discovered what may be the earliest sign of life on Earth. Remains of nearly 3.5-billion-year-old bacteria has been found in north-west Australia.

Evidence of the never-before-seen bacteria was found in sedimentary rocks in the remote Pilbara region, home to the world's oldest rock formations.
"There was plenty of life from the 3.4 and 3.43 billion-year-old mark – this is pushing it further back," researcher David Wacey, from the University of Western Australia told The Telegraph.

While there are no cells from the microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) to be studied under the microscope, scientists observed the marks left behind created by large clusters of microbes.