This month’s Under the Lens discusses the use of single-molecule tracking to study the effects and response of bacterial cells exposed to antibiotics.
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A.N.K. is a shareholder and consultant in Oxford Nanoimaging, a company that designs, manufactures and supports single-molecule fluorescence microscopes.
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Pambos, O.J., Kapanidis, A.N. Tracking antibiotic mechanisms. Nat Rev Microbiol 17, 201 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-019-0167-8
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