‘Big things, Momma, from small things someday come’: Antibiotics, Part II
In the last column we met scientists Joan Strassmann and Pierre Stallforth, and left Joan, lying on the ground in a Virginia forest, peering through a magnifying glass at a pile of steaming deer scat. She saw the first Dictyostelium fruiting body in the wild, sprouting out of a pellet of poop.