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Health
Catherine Taylor

Antibiotic resistance is threatening our health. Will bacterial infection send us back to the medical dark age?

Tony Velkov and Jian Li research bacteria at Monash University (Supplied)

Tony Velkov and Jian Li share the kind of geeky science story that would work perfectly as a Hollywood script.

On quiet weekends at the Monash University science labs 20 years ago, the pair discovered they were the only ones crazy — or obsessed — enough to be working on their projects while everyone else was at home enjoying a few days off.

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