The effects were huge. "After several days of treatment with high doses of doxycycline, mitochondrial respiration was visibly altered," explains Moullan. More surprising still, the consequences were observed all the way down the food chain, from mammals to flies to nematode worms to plants. "The worms' development was hindered. On the other hand, signs of aging appeared more slowly, something we had observed in earlier studies ."
The scientists also carried out growth tests on Arabidopsis thaliana, a common plant that's frequently used in laboratory research. After growing for a week on a normal substrate, it was transplanted into soil with varying concentrations of doxycycline. "Delays in growth, some quite severe, were observed after a few days, even in soils in which the concentration of antibiotics was no stronger than is found in some agricultural soils today," says Moullan.
And the authors are concerned this will affect research results in genetic experiments using them.
I am pretty sure this causes way bigger problems than that. In actual humans.
Like me dammit.
