Contact: Sandra Hines
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Caption: Tiny wells, each about the size of an eraser on the end of a pencil, hold individual populations of E. coli either evolving or succumbing to different levels of an antibiotic which has a red-orange hue.
Credit: S. Hammarlund/U of Washington
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