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Engineer, biologist study ‘laws’ of bacteria

An engineer and a microbiologist from WSU are collaborating to fight bacterial resistance to life-saving antibiotics. With a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Shira Broschat, professor in electrical engineering and computer science, and Douglas Call, associate professor in veterinary microbiology and pathology, are studying how antibiotic resistance is assembled and disseminated […]