Many antibiotics were developed during the “Golden Age of Antibiotics”. How did it happen, why has antibiotic development slowed down since then, and what can we do to reignite it?Antibiotic-like remedies date back millennia, with records of moldy bread and medicinal soil being used to treat wounds in ancient Egypt, Greece, and China. We now know they are likely to have contained antibiotic compounds.1But the modern scientific journey began in the early 20th century. Scientists gradually began d...