Let's just say the path the researchers took aren't doing them any favors. Of all of the potential ways to explore this, they chose developing new antibiotic r

Let's just say the path the researchers took aren't doing them any favors. Of all of the potential ways to explore this, they chose developing new antibiotic resistance in genes: > The scientists then tweaked the mutation rate of the orthogonal DNA-replicating enzyme, eventually enhancing it 1,000-fold. To test if the system could be used to evolve new functions, they inserted a gene for resistance to one antibiotic and saw how long it took for that gene to mutate into one conferring resistance to a different antibiotic. Within twelve days, they got 150 times more resistance to the new antibiotic.