Penicillin

Advocates say FDA should ban all non-medical use of antibiotics in animals

Health & Medicine

Farmers often use low doses of antibiotics on their large farms to keep disease at bay. But critics say that’s leading to drug resistant bugs that are killing people. A new court ruling will require the FDA to stop the use of two specific antibiotics, but activists are targeting the whole range of antibiotics used in animals.

Painting with E. coli

Arts, Culture & Media

Superbugs: India and the Rise of Drug-Resistant Germs

The World

Godfather of Bacteria

Arts, Culture & Media

Godfather of Bacteria

Godfather of Bacteria

In 1928 the Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the fungus from which penicillin is derived. Fleming made the discovery while trying an unusual experiment: painting with strains of bacteria. Lindsay Patterson talked with a team that’s taking bacterial painting to a new level.    VIDEO: Artist Amy Chase Gulden prints a bacterial painting.