Editor’s note: With an undergraduate degree and work experience in microbiology, I just had to read The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax. For years, legend had defined the discovery of pencillin in the 1920s as an accident when Dr. Alexander Fleming, a British researcher, left a petri…

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