• Question: why do you grow bugs?

    Asked by Cher_xx to Abid, Thomas, Sanjib on 16 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by scott.
    • Photo: Sanjib Bhakta

      Sanjib Bhakta answered on 16 Jun 2017:

      We grow bugs, following necessary safety procedures in our microbiology lab, to study effects of drugs on their growth, survival strategies and also to extract DNAs, RNAs, Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids from the bugs to study their role in causing infectious diseases.

    • Photo: Thomas Booth

      Thomas Booth answered on 16 Jun 2017:

      In our lab we grow them in order to get large quantities of the drugs they produce! We also grow them to see if they are resistant or susceptible to a particular drug!

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