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General Mar 22, 2026 at 11:04 AM

'Predators that just run in and grab, stab and kill': The deep cave bacteria resistant to modern medicine

Posted by sseumblue


https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260318-the-deep-cave-bacteria-resistant-to-modern-medicine

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yhwhx Mar 22, 2026 +102
The last sentence of the first paragraph is much more positive than the headline: "Now scientists hope to use their tricks to inspire new drugs and treatments."
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Terratoast Mar 22, 2026 +110
Really shitty quote for the article title that doesn't summarize what the article is about. They found a deep cave bacteria that's resistant to antibiotics despite only living off of other bacteria. This is fascinating for researchers because originally we assumed that disease-causing bacteria was becoming antibiotic resistant because of our overuse of antibiotics. But these bacteria haven't been exposed to our medicine, they're not disease-causing. This might help paint a more accurate picture of why bacteria get antibiotic resistance and subsequently, help us deal with them.
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[deleted] Mar 22, 2026 -46
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flyforpennies Mar 22, 2026 +129
Shame they haven’t got much funding for the novel antibiotics they have potentially found. Antimicrobial resistance is a huge issue that’s growing every year.
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AlexHoneyBee Mar 23, 2026 +3
Yes, here is good quality data supporting the claim: https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/c_auris/
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lEatSand Mar 23, 2026
I got the joke bro.
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WickedFrags Mar 22, 2026 +64
Could you like... not!!!??? At least this year...
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Better_March5308 Mar 22, 2026 +16
Really. Destroy it before it escapes from the lab!
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fernybranka Mar 22, 2026 +10
It is offensive to deep cave labs to suggest that the deep cave lab bacteria came out of the deep cave lab.
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PanchogarB Mar 22, 2026 +10
I thought of something else not gonna lie before I read bacteria
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gbquake Mar 23, 2026 +2
I live above a wet cavern system and have no desire to explore it first-hand. I take no comfort that they’d name the disease that I brought out after me. I think it has saved our neighborhood from the recent Oahu floods tho, which is nice.
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styleb83 Mar 24, 2026 +1
All the pop up adds on that site make it miserable to try to get through.
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