I am surprised weekly by how many health medications and antibiotics are from soil bacteria.
Now archea are the new story, but are incredibly hard to reproduce em in a lab, or test tube.
Interesting to see there is already an anticancer/tumor blend out there., and a new goop from them called archaeol.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3465877/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeol
There will be lots more coming in the future from these little guys, and you can count on surprises.
I still remember i first heard about them in the caldera of Mt. St. Helens.
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/arch/contents/ 
