“You actually put them in a petri plate next to a microbe that causes disease… you look to see who grew and who died.”

Anne Madden · TED Radio Hour · The shocking power of tiny things

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performed a “gladiator test” by co-culturing candidate microbes with MRSA on a petri plate to see which kills the pathogen

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