Switching off antibiotic resistance

Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have found new RNA-control switches (“ribo-switches) for genes encoding antibiotic resistance and discovered that these switches are actually “turned on” by the antibiotics themselves.  The switches could be turned off by future treatments.

http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/switching-antibiotic-resistance

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