An AI model trained on large amounts of genetic data can predict whether bacteria will become antibiotic-resistant. The new study shows that antibiotic resistance is more easily transmitted between ...

"We haven't had a robust understanding of how properties of the environment and cell motility influence bacterial dispersion." Mattingly decided to focus his model on 'surface states' that ...

Bacterial cells can "remember ... coli), a common bacterium and well-studied model organism. "In the case of E. coli, the entire organism is a single cell," Wytock said. "It has many fewer ...