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The rise and fall of antibiotics. What would a post-antibiotic world look like?

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest global threats to health, food security and development. This month, The Conversation’s experts explore how we got here and the potential solutions.

The Conversation

Nobel Prize For Penicillin Discovery Hits The Market

Dr. Ernst Chain's historic Nobel Prize up for sale at £1.6m ($1.95m) encapsulates a groundbreaking medical achievement.

Zenger

National Research Foundation’s chance to bridge India’s science-society gap

The National Research Foundation, India’s new research funding agency with a Rs 50,000 crore budget, aims to boost research and innovation.

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What is penicillin, and how was it discovered?

Discovered by sheer accident in the late 1920s, penicillin was the world's first antibiotic.

LiveScience

William champions appeal to build centre tackling antimicrobial resistance

The topic is said to be something William is very interested in and his new patronage sits alongside his role as president of the Royal Marsden.

The Independent UK

Disgusting brute threatened to slash girlfriend 'from ear to ear' in horrifying call

Alexander Fleming also threatened to 'crucify' the woman and nail her to a garden fence

Daily Record

Rock stars: how a group of scientists in South Africa rescued a rare 500kg chunk of human history

Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin because of mould growing on a Petri dish left out while he was on holiday. Chinese monks in the 9th century wanted to make a potion for immortality: instead, they discovered gunpowder.

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Gutter to gut: How antimicrobial-resistant microbes journey from environment to humans

From sore throats to fevers and life-threatening infections, most people have periodically used antibiotics. Recent reports show that the global COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of antibiotics.

The Conversation

Sweet Success: Scientists Develop Honey-Based Bee DNA Test To Monitor Hive Health

Scientists have developed an innovative method to examine DNA traces in honey that may help with the early identification of health problems in a hive when a deadly new disease variant cuts a swathe through global populations.

Zenger

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

Without new antibiotics, the world is on track to re-enter the medical dark ages by 2050, when a simple cut could kill 10 million people a year. So why are they so hard to find?

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Cut yourself and others some slack: we need more time to experiment and fail at work

In 1928 Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, while studying the staphylococcus bacteria, noticed mould on his petri dishes inhibited its growth. He experimented, leading to the discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic.

The Conversation

Guns, not roses – here's the true story of penicillin’s first patient

Albert Alexander was dying. World War II was raging, and this police officer of the county of Oxford, England, had developed a severe case of sepsis after a cut on his face became badly infected. His blood was now teeming with deadly bacteria.

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