Sunday, September 11, 2016

bacteria resisting antibiotics

Passed along in email was this visual of bacteria growing increasingly resistant to antibiotics:

In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to drugs.
The experiments, described in the Sept. 9 issue of Science, are thought to provide the first large-scale glimpse of the maneuvers of bacteria as they encounter increasingly higher doses of antibiotics and adapt to survive — and thrive — in them.
To do so, the team constructed a 2-by-4 foot petri dish and filled it with 14 liters of agar, a seaweed-derived jellylike substance commonly used in labs to nourish organisms as they grow.

2 comments:

  1. All life seems as non-proofable as people. The whole universe is all about change. Much of which we don't like.

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