contracting a bacterial infection could easily kill you the age of antibiotics was ushered in by alexander fleming who discovered penicillin back in the late 1920 s. and was later awarded the nobel prize for his work antibiotics at the scene for a paradigm shift in medicine they've saved countless lives but bacteria evolve and a few of them always survive the encounter with the medicine pathogens eventually acquire resistance 1st to one then to more and more antibiotics then they multiply and pass it on they can even share their resistance with other microbes some multi resistant super bugs are no impervious to practically entire arsenal of antibiotics at our disposal and research and antibiotics hasn't advance nearly as much as an other fields of medical research big pharma is interest in them evaporated around 20 new major classes of anti-microbial were discovered between the 1940 s. and sixty's but over the last 60 years just 2 new classes of the drugs have been approved. meanwhile the problem of multi resistance has grown increasingly acute experts estimate multi resistant pathogens killed aro

contracting a bacterial infection could easily kill you the age of antibiotics was ushered in by alexander fleming who discovered penicillin back in the late 1920 s. and was later awarded the nobel prize for his work antibiotics at the scene for a paradigm shift in medicine they've saved countless lives but bacteria evolve and a few of them always survive the encounter with the medicine pathogens eventually acquire resistance 1st to one then to more and more antibiotics then they multiply and pass it on they can even share their resistance with other microbes some multi resistant super bugs are no impervious to practically the entire arsenal of antibiotics at our disposal. and research and antibiotics has advanced nearly as much as in other fields of medical research big pharma is interest and then evaporated around 20 new major classes of antimicrobials were discovered between the 1940 s. and sixty's but over the last 60 years just 2 new classes of the drugs have been approved. meanwhile the problem of multi resistance has grown increasingly acute experts estimate multi resistant pathogens killed

contracting a bacterial infection could easily kill you the age of antibiotics was ushered in by alexander fleming who discovered penicillin back in the late 1920 s. and was later awarded the nobel prize for his work antibiotics at the scene for a paradigm shift in medicine they've saved countless lives but bacteria evolve and a few of them always survive the encounter with the medicine pathogens eventually acquire resistance 1st to one then to more and more antibiotics then they multiply and pass it on they can even share their resistance with other microbes some multi resistant super bugs are known impervious to practically the entire arsenal of antibiotics at our disposal and research and antibiotics people worldwide last year but there's still no comprehensive global plan for dealing with a. revolt from the w's science correspondent derek williams who joins from a welcome at eric so. these antibiotics because the antibiotic resistant bacteria they are increasing because. well because for a variety of different reasons there as we just saw bacteria evolve they are going to eventually evolve res

my third story is about making a practical difference december 11, 1945 alexander fleming and two other men put down their bowties to receive a nobel prize for their research into penicillin. as a ceremony unfolded in stockholm a little known female chemical engineer was at home looking after her young son. broadly she has been written out of history. it was she who took a promising and highly unstable chemical substance and solve engineering problems necessary to transform it into the drug to transform more lives than any other. by the time of the normandie beach landing june 1944 the allied forces had two.3 million doses of penicillin one year later production has 650 billion units among them with the ingenuity and tenacity to me the story demonstrates perfectly why such a powerful force in our world like the ancient roman god who had two faces one looking at the past the other looks at the future in the case of engineering the other looks at humanity were engineers do what they see and come up with a solution these are the tools and systems we use to understand and shape our world. t

on december 11, 1945, alexander fleming and two other men put on their bowties to receive a nobel prize for the research into penicillin. whilst the ceremony unfolded in stockholm, a little-known female chemical engineer called margaret hutchinson rousseau was at home looking after her young son. hutchinson rousseau had broadly been written out of history, but she's the real star of the penicillin story. it was she who took a promising and highly unstable chemical substance and sold the significant engineering problems necessary -- solved -- to save more lives than any other. by the time of the normandy beach landing in june 1944, the allied forces had 2.3 million doses of penicillin. a year later, , production stood at 650 billion units a month, all thanks to her ingenuity and tenacity. for me the story demonstrates perfectly what engineering is about and why such a powerful force in our world. i think of engineering as being like the ancient roman god janus, who had two faces, one looking at the past and the other one looking at the future. in the case of engineering, one face looks t