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Researchers have developed a new microfluidic platform to track a very rare type of cell that can survive antibiotic treatments. When #cells wake up from dormant states to grow and divide, their stress level goes down. But 'persister cells' (shown here with the red signal level) maintain high stress levels and don't wake up until the antibiotic is removed (seen at 0:07). They then survive the treatment and thrive to repopulate the #infection afterwards (seen at 0:12): eng.cam.ac.uk/news/researchers-unlock-behaviour-rare-cells-evade-antibiotics-playing-dead
#antibioticresistance
Researchers have developed a new microfluidic platform to track a very rare type of cell that can survive antibiotic treatments. When #cells wake up from dormant states to grow and divide, their stress level goes down. But 'persister cells' (shown here with the red signal level) maintain high stress levels and don't wake up until the antibiotic is removed (seen at 0:07). They then survive the treatment and thrive to repopulate the #infection afterwards (seen at 0:12): eng.cam.ac.uk/news/researchers-unlock-behaviour-rare-cells-evade-antibiotics-playing-dead
#antibioticresistance
