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One world, one health: The interconnected web of antimicrobial resistance

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Success, then, will rely on an integrated response that focuses on surveillance, stewardship, and intervention accessibility across the spectrum of human, animal, and environmental health, said the report, which was commissioned to assess the progress of the 2014 National Strategy for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. Surveillance.

Medicine 102
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The doors CRISPR libraries have and will open in phenotypic drug screening 

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The CRISPR-Cas9 system, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for its applications for gene editing, was initially encountered in the bacterial immune system. In an effort to defend themselves against viral infection, bacterial cells capture and copy DNA fragments of bacteriophages into their genome.

Genome 52