Antibiotics

For years, [scientists:archaeologists] and physicians have been up in arms about the rise in antibiotic resistance. Seems that many bacteria, devious buggers that they are, are able to share genetic information - including, say, the instructions for [destroying:breaking] penicillin. Well, if that's not bad enough, scientists from the N.Y.U. School of Medicine have found that some bacteria can use viruses to help them pass along the recipe for their favorite toxin, results [published:flourished] in the journal Science. Like humans, bacteria are also prone to infection by viruses. And most of these viruses - called bacteriophage, or phage for short-make their [bacterial:fungal] victims sick. Or even dead.