Microbes are perhaps more manageable than we thought : vimar

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Microbes are perhaps more manageable than we thought
Escherichia coli (E. coli) has a genome with roughly 4,500 genes. The number of mutations possible defies most researchers’ analysis resources, unless, as Chikara Furusawa and his team have done, fewer likely evolutionary directions can be identified. © NATIONAL INFECTION SERVICE / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Scientists at RIKEN have shown that correlated dynamics mean that the evolutionary pathways taken by microbes are fewer than previously thought-a finding that could significantly improve the predictions of how infectious bacteria will develop antibiotic resistance, and perhaps even help science to steer the course of microbial evolution.

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