Bacteria battle: How one changes appearance, moves away to resist the other

Sunday, December 20, 2015 - 19:51 in Biology & Nature

Two types of bacteria found in the soil have enabled scientists to get the dirt on how resistance to antibiotics develops along with a separate survival strategy.The study identifies an atypical antibiotic molecule and the way in which the resistance to that molecule arises, including the identity of the genes that are responsible.

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