A new single-cell test reveals which antibiotics truly kill bacteria and which merely hold them back. Credit: Shutterstock Antibiotics are often judged by how well they slow or stop bacterial growth in laboratory tests. What is even more important, though, is whether those drugs actually kill bacteria inside the human body. Researchers at the University of Basel have now introduced a new way to measure how effectively antibiotics eliminate bacteria, not just suppress them. This distinction has

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