Original Research Calls for Community, Collaboration, and Commitment

In the summer of 1948—an already auspicious year of progress and discovery that gave us ratification of the Marshall Plan to rebuild postwar Europe, the formation of the World Health Organization, and the first posit of the big bang theory—two researchers at the University of Missouri, soil microbiologist William Albrecht and plant mycologist Benjamin Duggar, discovered aureomycin, a bacterium that led to the world’s first tetracycline antibiotic, eventually saving millions of …