Britain could be cut off from antibiotics supplies because of its ‘potentially catastrophic’ reliance on China for medication, a worrying new report reveals. With China producing up to 90 per cent of the ingredients used in antibiotics, experts have warned that President Xi could deny the NHS and Armed Forces access to infection-killing medicines at any time. WhileContinue reading ” China’s Control Over The UK’s Antibiotics Supply”
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Mould That Transformed The World
The penicillin mould accidentally grown by the physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming in London in 1928 has had its genome sequenced for the first time. Researchers from the United Kingdom used frozen samplings of Sir Fleming’s original strain of the fungus and compared them with their current, industrially used counterparts. The sample of Sir AlexanderContinue reading “Mould That Transformed The World”
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 