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🦠 Antibiotic Resistance & Horizontal Gene Transfer Simulator

Watch a bacterial colony respond to antibiotics in real time: pick a drug class and concentration, toggle Gram-positive vs Gram-negative cell walls, and dial up conjugation to see plasmid-borne resistance spread through the population by mutation and horizontal gene transfer.

Biology3DModerate60 FPS

Details

CategoryBiology

RenderingThree.js · WebGL

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsAntibiotic-class buttons (None / Cell wall - penicillin / Protein synthesis - tetracycline / DNA synthesis - fluoroquinolone) pick which mechanism attacks the colony; concentration slider (0-100% of MIC) sets kill strength; Gram-positive/Gram-negative toggle changes cell-wall permeability to the chosen class; conjugation-rate slider (0-100%) controls how fast resistant plasmids spread to susceptible neighbors on contact; reset button reseeds the colony from a fresh susceptible population.

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⚙ Under the hood

Grow a bacterial colony in a Petri dish and watch antibiotic resistance emerge and spread. Pick a drug class and concentration, switch between Gram-positive and Gram-negative cell walls, and dial up conjugation to see plasmid-borne resistance genes jump between neighboring bacteria in real time.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install