Bacterial Charity Work Thwarts Medical Treatments

Bacterial Charity Work Thwarts Medical Treatments
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:27:00 -0500

Drug resistant bacteria are a problem in many environments, especially healthcare institutions. While the ways in which these cells become resistant are understood at the cellular level, until now, the bacteria's survival strategies at the population level remained unclear.

A new study by James Collins and colleagues at Boston University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University reveals that a surprisingly small percentage of bacteria actually ...

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