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    Scientists spy on superbugs to see how they outsmart our antibiotics

    by Emily Baumgaertner, Los Angeles Times May 23, 2019 4 minutes

    Scientists have discovered yet another way that single-celled organisms have outsmarted us.

    The tiny bacteria that live inside our guts have an ingenious way of withstanding the onslaught of antibiotics we throw at them, according to a report published Thursday in the journal Science. The two-part system allows bacterial cells to stay alive until another bacterium can deliver a lifeline, packaged in a snippet of DNA.

    Microbes 1, Humans 0.

    "I'm afraid our findings are great news for bacterial cells - not so good for us," said study leader Christian Lesterlin, a researcher in the Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry program at Universite Lyon in France.

    Lesterlin and his colleagues already knew that

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