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

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?

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 discover… [+14248 chars]

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