Talks from the Bio lab desk

  When Antibiotics Stop Working Imagine this, you get a bacterial infection, go to the doctor, get prescribed antibiotics, and they don’t work.  The infection lingers, maybe even gets worse. Now everything is more puzzling than actually noticed or realized from the day you got the bacterial infection.  It's not only you. This is becoming more common, and often is a part of concern, in terms of treating bacterial infections. The reason is something called antibiotic resistance . So what exactly is that? Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria evolve ways to survive the drugs meant to kill them. It’s a survival tactic, which is part of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.  The theory suggests, the organisms on earth change over time, and those with advantageous traits in specific environments to help them survive will be selected by nature, in a process, termed as natural selection. Therefore, when bacteria are exposed more frequently to antibiotics, the ba...