The drugs that saved modern medicine are losing a war scientists always knew they couldn't permanently win.
Antibiotic resistance isn't a rare medical glitch - it's a measurable, accelerating global threat, already linked to millions of deaths each year, and it will only intensify as familiar drugs stop working.
Research reveals a molecular arms race with no permanent winner, driven by evolutionary forces no drug can outrun, and shaped as much by economics and misunderstanding as by biology - with real stakes for how you're treated the next time you get sick.
Inside, you'll discover:
- Why your body never becomes resistant - only bacteria do
- How one resistance gene crossed continents without a single infected traveler
- Why new antibiotics may never be profitable enough to save us
Part of the What Science Says About... series, where curiosity meets rigorous, evidence-first science writing.
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