Eighty years ago, Alexander Fleming received the medicine prize for discovering penicillin – a breakthrough that has since saved millions of lives. Yet even in his 1945 Nobel Prize lecture, Fleming warned of antibiotic overuse leading to dangerous resistance. That warning has become a reality.
As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Chilean scientist Cristina Dorador has made it her mission to find answers in one of the harshest environments on Earth – the Atacama Desert. There, she is on the hunt to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics.
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