[Hardastarboard]

A Texas A&M University researcher has discovered how nature's most primitive immune systems worked by studying bacteria's methods of resisting antibiotics over millions of years.

Talk about a badly written sentence. Antibiotics have only been around for about 70 years or so. I understand the author's point, but not because he made it clearly.

[decimon]

Antibiotics have only been around for about 70 years or so.

There are natural antibiotics. Don't know what was meant by the author.

[muawiyah]

Natural Antibiotics Abound.

[mnehring]

There are antibiotics in nature galore. Many substances are naturally antibiotic.

[Melas]

That’s utterly false. Antibiotics have been around since the beginning. Penicillin for example wasn’t discovered in a vacuum. Flemming was doing research on the fungi mold, because it was well documented that the blue mold on bread was used to successfully treat infections in the middle ages.

[bert]

——Antibiotics have only been around for about 70 years——

Actually, we don’t know about the age except it is very very old. Penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic was derived from mold and produced by a living organism.

Penicillin was discovered 70 years ago but has been around forever