Watch antibiotic resistance evolve | Science News
A giant petri dish exposes the evolutionary dynamics behind antibiotic resistance. Read more: http://ow.ly/xHi03041R48
E. coli evolved resistance to antibiotics as they grew across a giant petri dish coated with increasing concentrations of drugs. At the end of the experiment, the bacteria near the center of the plate could withstand a dose of antibiotics 1,000 times higher than that tolerated by the starting bacteria.
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