Spiral bacteria

An accidental collaboration of two unlikely researchers in an unexpected place led to one of the most radical changes in medical thinking and practice in history. It resulted in the disappearance of stomach ulcers and a spectacular Nobel prize for Medicine.

The City of Perth on the west coast of Australia and its port, Fremantle, are not really the first choices on this planet where you would expect huge scientific discoveries in biomedicine to take place. Such breakthroughs usually occur within very large and wealthy urban conglomerates, to which entire networks of the world’s leading universities…