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A bread mold that learned to assassinate bacteria and accidentally rewrote human survival odds.
the discoveryFleming's messy lab killed bacteria by accident in 1928
blue cheeseRoquefort and brie owe their tang to it
chemical warfareIt evolved penicillin to murder competing microbes
lives countIts antibiotics have saved an estimated 200 million people
the sporesThose fuzzy green-blue patches are millions of waiting colonists