One of Britain’s top young scientists has died aged just 29, from a rare form of cancer originally diagnosed as a pulled muscle. Kirsty Smitten was a “world-leading” expert set to potentially help save tens of millions of lives with a new type of antibiotic she had developed. She was named a Forbes magazine’s ‘30 under 30’ scientist and in February this year was crowned FSB’s young entrepreneur of the year. She passed away in hospital with her family beside her on 4 October, having spent the past seven weeks in Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Her cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma,...