Entry point for curbing the evolution of antibiotic resistance discovered

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 13:40 in Biology & Nature

The team of Professor Tobias Bollenbach from the Institute for Biological Physics at the University of Cologne has published a study on a new approach to improving the effectiveness of antibiotics in bacterial infections. The study 'Highly parallel lab evolution reveals that epistasis can curb the evolution of antibiotic resistance,' on ways to controlling antibiotic resistance through targeted gene interactions has appeared in Nature Communications.

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