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How World War II Revolutionised Antibiotics: A Short History
Alexander Fleming is lauded as a hero for his chance discovery of penicillin in 1928. However, penicillin wasn’t available to the general public until the mid-1940s. Why did this happen, and what did World War II have to do with it? — read more
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But, how did horseshoe crabs get involved in the pharmaceutical industry?
Did you know that the safety of injectable drugs is guaranteed by using the blood of a single species of crab? When you stop to think about it, this statement becomes increasingly bizarre. — read more