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EPISODE · Aug 13, 2026 · 50 MIN

The Antibiotics Boom, Bust, and Search for What's Next: The Drugs That Shape Us, Episode 1

from Chain Reaction by ACS · host American Chemical Society

Through a few serendipitous discoveries, antibiotics changed the course of history by turning deadly infections into manageable sicknesses. But it didn’t take long for  bacteria to begin outsmarting these wonder drugs. On today’s episode: The fascinating world of antibiotics and the efforts to tackle antibiotic resistance, including using AI to come up with new drugs that will only become more essential.Transcripts and episode sources at acs.org/chainreaction

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