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The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)

Harvard Medical School · demo · Watch on YouTube

Evolution & geneticsBiology & biotechnologyMedicine & infectious disease

What it is

A two-minute time-lapse from the Kishony Lab showing bacteria spreading across a giant petri dish with increasing antibiotic doses, evolving resistance as they go.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN links it as a visually striking demonstration of evolution and antibiotic resistance happening in days.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “This is an amazing video[1] from Harvard Medical School”

    Bacteria become antibiotic resistant in ten days

    lossolo, 2016-09 · Strong recommendation · in “The Age of the Superbug Is Here”

  2. “the mega-plate video is an unbelievably good demonstration of bacterial evolution”

    Unbelievably good demonstration of bacterial evolution

    robocat, 2019-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Bladder cancer 'attacked and killed by common cold virus'”

  3. “visually it's just really striking.”

    Visually striking real-time bacterial mutation demo

    Retric, 2016-09 · Recommendation · in “Videos of Evolution in Action”

  4. “For those that would like to visualise how the bacteria vs anitbiotics evolve in an experiment over 11 days”

    Visualizes bacteria evolving against antibiotics over 11 days

    sengork, 2017-01 · Recommendation · in “How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World”

  5. “It also clearly shows the lineage of evolution. Very interesting.”

    Fast bacterial resistance evolution with lineage shown

    ramgorur, 2018-03 · Recommendation · in “The man who bottled evolution”

  6. “here is an interesting visualization of bacteria developing resistance to antibiotics.”

    Visualization of bacteria developing antibiotic resistance

    idiocrat, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “It's 2023 and I still have to touch a piss soaked door handle to exit a bathroom”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: antibiotic resistance, evolution, bacteria, time-lapse, natural selection

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