Crafty Bacteria Change Shape To Evade Antibiotics
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Antibiotics — medications that destroy or slow down bacteria growth — are becoming increasingly less effective as the pathogens find new ways to evade the drugs. Some produce pumps that flush the antibacterial medicines out from the bacterial cell, while others modify themselves, so they are unrecognizable as targets. Now, researchers at UK's Newcastle University have recorded the germs shedding their outer skins and changing their shapes to avoid detection.
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- AH!약 6년this is scary
- Siobhan약 6년That was awesome 😎😎😎😎😎
mdog2약 6년WOW, this is fascinating!!- cecilia약 6년bakteria looks like lava in a lava lamp!
bananaz4life약 6년Wow! I'm a 6th-grader and we are learning this at school! Thank you so much for the information!
astrocat27777약 6년Wow this is fascinating- jess160약 6년wonder how they keep themselves together when they shed their cell walls...
leumas89약 6년THEY JUST LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE AS A BLOBS
- still hope약 6년people are looking to use bacteria phages and they won't be useless ounce bacteria evolve they still are useful because they evolve too unlike antibiodics they are kinda living so they still evolve
- and i oop약 6년this isn't gross but kinda scary
- well...약 6년that is true. it is scary because they are resistant to antibiotics.
cookieking약 6년Only when they change form. If they don't then they are not repellent.