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Listening to Bacteria’s ‘Music’ Could Help Us Combat Antibiotic Resistance

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“We could hear the sound of a single bacterium!”

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Irek Roslon, TU Delft

There’s a symphony of music being played on your skin by the most unlikely of musicians: bacteria. Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have found out that bacteria make sound, and they’ve developed a method of listening to these tunes as they're made in real time.

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