Antimicrobial resistance is a side effect of bacterial clockwork mechanism

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Could a gene regulatory network in gut microbes have evolved its elaborate and tightly regulated molecular machinery only to pump out antibiotics indiscriminately? Researchers have shown that this is an auxiliary function.

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