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LESSON 3 · Poison, Cure & Everything Between

PAUSE TO THINK

How fast can bacteria become resistant to a new antibiotic?

Sometimes within days

In a 2016 Harvard experiment, bacteria evolved resistance to 1,000x the lethal dose of an antibiotic in just 11 days. They filmed it happening in real time on a giant petri dish — the video went viral.

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