Wildly susceptible to sea sickness herself, Chris Tachibana writes about microbiologists on a 9-month ‘round-the-world ocean voyage. The scientists were looking for microbes (like Penicillium) that produce antibiotics, which we are rapidly running out of because of growing resistance. A Kompas Film video shows that the sea could yield a treasure of new drugs.
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