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Bacteria can develop resistance to drugs they haven’t encountered before − scientists figured this out decades ago in a classic experiment

  • Written by Qi Zheng, Professor of Biostatistics, Texas A&M University
Bacteria can develop resistance to drugs they haven’t encountered before − scientists figured this out decades ago in a classic experimentBacteria are evolutionarily primed to outpace drug developers.National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century.

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