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Date posted:   Jul 14, 2017

BC researchers reveal new clues to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Boston College biologist Tim van Opijnen and computer scientist José Bento reveal how different strains of bacteria use different groups of genes to resist antibiotics. Their approach maps, ranks, and identifies where antibiotic sensitivity functions reside in the genome of strains of S. pneumoniae. Read BC News article