Scientists fool bacteria into killing themselves to survive

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 12:51 in Biology & Nature

Like firemen fighting fire with fire, researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have found a way to fool a bacteria's evolutionary machinery into programming its own death.

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