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The bacteria in Lechuguilla Cave, in New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavern National Park, have been isolated from the surface world for 4 to 7 million years. But the majority of the 93 strains isolated by researchers were resistant to...


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... to fight infections.No place on Earth demonstrates the resilience or inventiveness of life quite like Lechuguilla Cave, whose subterranean tunnels stretch for 130 miles through Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.
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BY TERI GATTO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM. COM A four-million-year-old cave in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park is home to almost one hundred ancient bacteria which are immune to modern antibiotics.
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