A new biotechnology tool to tackle antibiotic resistance

Designing effective new molecules to tackle infectious diseases is a difficult process that currently represents a huge challenge for scientists, especially given the rise in bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur's Bacterial Genome Plasticity Unit have responded to this challenge by developing a new biotechnological tool which bypasses the sampling limitations that represent a hurdle for scientists, paving the way for the identification and use of effective new molecules.

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