bacteria

Bacteria give lessons in investment economics By Simon Redfern http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23623601 Colonies of bacteria balance growth against risk, just like financial investors, ecologists have found. Using lab-based synthetic biology, experiments in bacterial evolution...

Drug-resistant mutants produce a molecule that boosts drug tolerance in the susceptible ones The long-held notion on how bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics stands challenged. The conventional thinking is that continuous exposure to antibiotics or exposure at sub-optimal levels can...