[Microbiology] Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic

[krishnakumar.3e from gmail.com]

MIT biologists have provoked soil-dwelling bacteria into producing a
new type of antibiotic by pitting them against another strain of
bacteria in a battle for survival.

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