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Phenotypic heterogeneity combat antibiotic therapy

Published in Microbiology
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Anteneh Hailu Abebe
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Phenotypic heterogeneity is a diversity that occurs independently of genetic or environmental variation. Nowadays, the prevalence of drug resistance pathogen increasing from time to time whereas new drugs entering the market is getting low. A recent study identified an epigenetic basis for growth heterogeneity allows some cancer cells to survive chemotherapy. Growth heterogeneity also contributes to chemoresistance in tumors (Jeff Settleman et al., 2010). Therefore, understanding the phenotypic nature of the organism or cells helps to design the effective drugs by developing drugs that attack various population subsets rather than targeting the population average.  

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Anteneh Hailu Abebe
PhD fellow, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
I am a Ph.D. student in Biomedical sciences of Ben Gurion university in Israel. I am Interested in sharing of knowledge, skills and most importantly exchange of scientific Ideas. I wanted to impress the scientific community with speed and precision.Sometimes being fast is impressive, but being right is priceless.

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Li Wei
about 7 years ago

It is vwhat is very intersting, and what is the name of this bacteria in your wonderful video?

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