How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics

Friday, October 8, 2010 - 08:30 in Biology & Nature

New research suggests that bacteria are remarkably resilient to toxic substances, such as antibiotics, because bacteria have the innate ability to produce a large variety of proteins. Those proteins then are able to do things such as pump toxins out or alter toxins so that they can no longer kill the bacteria.

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