Probing Question: How does antibiotic resistance happen?

Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 17:21 in Health & Medicine

Before Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928, there were any number of unpleasant ways that bacteria could kill you. Countless women died from infection after childbirth, and a simple chest cold could turn into deadly pneumonia.

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