Interesting article on antibiotic resistance in one of my periodicals today. Scientists have long known that exposing bacteria to the right antibiotics will kill most of them, but leave a few mutants that happen to resist the drug better than the rest. These mutants go on to multiply, and eventually the whole strain evolves resistance. Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/mutagen-antibiotics/#ixzz0fHdmDVPo
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