Did you know 14 years ago today, Rutgers professors successfully reproduced 8-million-year-old bacteria? Professors Paul Falkowski and Kay Bidle report that 8-million-year-old bacteria extracted "from the oldest ice on Earth have been thawed out and brought back to life in the laboratory, providing new insights into how long living creatures can be frozen," in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which has been picked up by the international press. #DYKRutgers