Could a gene regulatory network in gut microbes have evolved its elaborate and tightly regulated molecular machinery only to pump out antibiotics indiscriminately? Researchers from the Institute ...

“They’ve learned to neutralize antibiotics, pump them out of their cells, or modify their structures so antibiotics can't recognize them anymore, but what makes them truly dangerous is that ...

There are many ways bacteria can avoid antibiotics and it depends on the type of antibiotic - there are antibiotic efflux pumps which pump antibiotics from bacteria to the outside so that they don ...