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Brief history of the discovery of modern antibiotics
The discovery of antibiotics occurred ‘accidentally’ when Alexander Fleming, in 1928, forgot to clean up the stocks of bacteria in a petri dish and left it on the shelf wash over the weekend. On Monday, when the Petri dishes will be cleared, he saw some mold has grown in the media and the surrounding mold [...]
Genetic Engineering
Antibiotics are a class of compounds, whether natural or synthetic, which has the effect of suppressing or stopping a biochemical process in the organism, especially in the process of infection by bacteria. Use of antibiotics in particular relating to treatment of infectious diseases, although in biotechnology and genetic engineering are also used as a selection [...]
