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In the brutal arms race between drugs and bugs, serendipity has often been on humanity’s side.
In 1928, Alexander Fleming left a petri dish unsealed and later found it overgrown with a green fuzz that had partly killed his culture of Staphylococcus aureus . He’d discovered penicillin.
That was the opening salvo in what would become an evolutionary battle between…
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