Episode 11: Antibiotics Part III - Streptomycin 1952
Update: 2021-08-19
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This episode covers the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded to Selman Waksman. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute chose to give Waksman the award “for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis”. Topics include the isolation of streptomycin, how antibiotics work molecularly, and the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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