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Comment Not convinced yet... (Score 0) 87

This video also may show how bacteria grow on a medium after antibiotic degraded to concentration which is no longer effective. Antibiotics are known to be not very stable substances. Two weeks at 37 deg C incubator (E. coli optimal growth temperature) may have degraded the antibiotic. Did the researchers check antibiotic concentration after two weeks? You will never know as the the article is paywalled, even though your taxes probably paid for this research. After nearly 700 generations (E. coli has a cell division rate of about once every 30 minutes) is not surprising that "multiple coexisting lineages diversified both phenotypically and genotypically". Heh, I am not convinced, at least not yet.

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