a novel ultramicrobacterium from 3042 m deep Greenland glacial ice


	a novel ultramicrobacterium from 3042 m deep Greenland glacial ice
balthazarus
6-15-2009 4:53 AM
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microbe, greenland, space
balthazarus says:
Fascinating.
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<I>Herminiimonas glaciei</I> sp. nov., a novel ultramicrobacterium from 3042 m deep Greenland glacial ice</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/6/1272?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&author1=Jennifer+Loveland-Curtze&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT">A Gram-negative ultramicrobacterium (designated strain UMB49<SUP>T</SUP>)<SUP> </SUP>was isolated from a 120 000-year-old, 3042 m deep Greenland<SUP> </SUP>glacier ice core</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/herminiimonas_glaciei_tiny_frozen_microbe_may_be_clue_extraterrestrial_life" href="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/herminiimonas_glaciei_tiny_frozen_microbe_may_be_clue_extraterrestrial_life" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scientificblogging.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/herminiimonas_glaciei_tiny_frozen_microbe_may_be_clue_extraterrestrial_life">The microbe</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/herminiimonas_glaciei_tiny_frozen_microbe_may_be_clue_extraterrestrial_life">is small even by bacterial standards</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/herminiimonas_glaciei_tiny_frozen_microbe_may_be_clue_extraterrestrial_life"><DIV>
The team showed great patience in coaxing the dormant <EM>Herminiimonas glaciei </EM>microbe back to life; first incubating their samples at 2˚C for seven months and then at 5˚C for a further four and a half months, after which colonies of very small purple-brown bacteria were seen. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/herminiimonas_glaciei_tiny_frozen_microbe_may_be_clue_extraterrestrial_life">Studying microorganisms living under extreme conditions on Earth may provide insight into what sorts of life forms could survive elsewhere in the solar system. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/herminiimonas_glaciei_tiny_frozen_microbe_may_be_clue_extraterrestrial_life">H glaciei isn't a pathogen and is not harmful to humans</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/herminiimonas_glaciei_tiny_frozen_microbe_may_be_clue_extraterrestrial_life">but it can pass through a 0.2 micron filter, which is the filter pore size commonly used in sterilization of fluids in laboratories and hospitals</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8C33EDD4-3EAF-460F-ADA7-735C80F946C6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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