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Episode 3: Penicillin's Twisted Path

Episode 3: Penicillin's Twisted Path

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 From Fleming's famous moldy petri dish to worldwide medical revolution, Wade traces penicillin's decade-long journey from laboratory curiosity to lifesaving medication. This episode reveals how World War II necessity, international collaboration, and chance discoveries (including a particularly productive strain found on a grocery store cantaloupe) transformed medicine forever, while exploring how scientific breakthroughs actually happen through persistence, teamwork, and cross-disciplinary problem-solving.

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