Juan Carvajal-Garcia
New Avenue for Understanding Antibiotic Resistance Evolution
Aug. 1, 2023—By: Andy Flick, Evolutionary Studies scientific coordinator In a new paper led by Houra Merrikh, the team showed that oxidative stress is a major factor in the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The paper, Oxidative stress drives mutagenesis through transcription-coupled repair in bacteria, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....