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Microbe discovery and life on other planets

AP

A novel bacterium found trapped under glacial ice in Greenland for over 1,20,000 years may hold clues to life forms on other planets. After incubation at 2{+o} C and then at 5{+o} C, colonies of small purple-brown bacteria were seen.

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