Classical Reception is the process by which, “individuals and societies continually reappropriate and redefine classical antiquity in an effort to assert (or, at times, to challenge) continuity with a privileged past,” (Broder 505). It encourages classicists to examine the impacts ancient texts have made on those who have interacted with them and reveals the values […]
B21: Evolutionary Mechanism of Antibiotic Resistance: VIM – 4 Metallo-β-lactamases
Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) are a class of proteins contributing to the ongoing but often unrecognized antibiotic resistance crisis, in which many current and most past antibiotics are less effective than when first introduced. These proteins protect bacteria by destroying manmade antibiotics, and have spread worldwide in part due to the selective pressure of antibiotic overprescription. To […]
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