Century-old Bacteria Unearthed in New York Hospital
By ABC News | ABC News Blogs ? 11 hours ago
ABC News? Carrie Gann reports:
It was 1897. William McKinley took office as President of the United States. A New York Sun editorial told 8-year-old Virginia O?Hanlon that, yes, there is a Santa Claus. And someone at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City buried a time capsule full of bacteria in the cornerstone of the building.
On Wednesday, Dr. Martin Blaser, a bacteriologist and chair of the department of medicine at New York University, cracked open the capsule to take a closer look at the century-old microbes, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal....
