We'vecomea long way since Alexander Fleming's Serendipitous observation that, if PeniciHium notatum were grown in the appropriate substrate, it would exude a substance with antibiotic properties. Today the world of medicines is big business and the science behind those medicines is ever more technically complex.We hear a lot these days about the prohibitive cost of pharmaceuticals with wonder drugs coming with equally wonderful price tags. But we hear a lot less about the processes that have been finely tuned over the years which have given us such pharmaceutical breakthroughs as the statins and annual flu vaccines that we all take for granted.
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