{
  "id": 13102283,
  "title": "Unstable Heteroresistance as a Stepping Stone to Stable Resistance via Compensatory Mutations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/unstable-heteroresistance-as-a-stepping-stone-to-stable-resistance",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.08.756632v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Antibiotic heteroresistance, a trait in which a drug-susceptible population harbors a rare resistant subpopulation, has been presented as an unstable intermediate state on the way to classic stable antibiotic resistance. However, the timescales and pathways under which this could occur has not been examined. Extending a recombination-based model of copy- heteroresistance to include compensatory…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}