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.
Sunday, September 11, 2016
bacteria resisting antibiotics
Passed along in email was this visual of bacteria growing increasingly resistant to antibiotics:
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All life seems as non-proofable as people. The whole universe is all about change. Much of which we don't like.
ReplyDelete..wat olcharlie said, imho.
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