The First Miracle Drugs
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 On Christmas Day 1932, the German chemical combine I.G. Farbenindustrie
filed a patent application on behalf of a red dye that its medical researchers
and chemists had found to have a remarkable ability to cure certain kinds of bac-
terial infections in mice. By the time the patent was awarded just over two years
later, the dye, now […]
