Fear the superbug: Watch bacteria develop high-level drug-resistance in a giant Petri dish : newatlas

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Fear the superbug: Watch bacteria develop high-level drug-resistance in a giant Petri dish

Fear the superbug: Watch bacteria develop high-level drug-resistance in a giant Petri dish

Crafty bacteria that mutate and evade the forces of current drugs are a real concern to the global community, with a recent report predicting that these superbugs could kill 10 million people a year by 2050, an average of one death every three seconds.Scientists have built a new tool to study how the microscopic killers operate, taking the form of giant Petri dish where they can be seen evolving resistance to rising concentrations of antibiotics in a relatively short space of time.Much of the time, scientists study the evolution of microbes in the lab by pitting them against drug mixtures in relatively small spaces, like on tiny plates.