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By: Romeo Vitelli

One of the biggest modern problems involves bacteria being introduced into new ecosystems where they never existed before. As bacteria move into new settings, the old evolutionary balance gets...

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By: One Furious Llama

Lies! The world was only created 6,000 years ago! Ehm, sorry about that. Lost my mind for a minute there. But seriously, how would you go about avoiding the really nasty bacteria who happen to be very...

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By: Arwen from the Chameleon's Tongue

I like their thorough approach to avoiding contamination. And it’s cute to have your DNA contaminated with wooly mammoth!

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By: Brian Too

Possibly a viable approach is to engineer an antibiotic that does not have it’s origins in the biological world. Without an existing set of genes to deploy against such an antibiotic, resistance would...

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By: Will

These resistant microbes have time and again been shown to be living happily in our guts, noses and other tissues without making us sick. The trouble comes when we are exposed to medicines and toxins...

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By: vince

“Possibly a viable approach is to engineer an antibiotic that does not have it’s origins in the biological world. Without an existing set of genes to deploy against such an antibiotic, resistance would...

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