Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past
by jdm2212 on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:01PM
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> When penicillin was first isolated in 1928, there was so little demand for it that it took over a decade before anyone even bothered working on a way to commercialize it.
That's false. Penicillin was discovered in 1928. It took until 1940 for researchers to show it could cure infections. It was put to use in a human the next year, and Fleming won the Nobel Prize in 1945.
Infections that could be cured by penicillin (staph and strep) were on their own never a leading cause of death, and so you wouldn't expect penicillin on its own to drive big life expectancy improvements.
Re:A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past
by jdm2212 on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:26PM
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That's how research works. You have to wait for the researcher with the right skill set to attack the problem in the right way. Sometimes it takes a few years.
That's false. Penicillin was discovered in 1928. It took until 1940 for researchers to show it could cure infections. It was put to use in a human the next year, and Fleming won the Nobel Prize in 1945.
Infections that could be cured by penicillin (staph and strep) were on their own never a leading cause of death, and so you wouldn't expect penicillin on its own to drive big life expectancy improvements.