“Penicillin is, I would argue, the single most important medication that's ever been introduced,” said Robert Gaynes, an infectious disease physician and medical historian at Emory University. “It ...

He discovered lysozyme ... He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked with the mold for some time, but refining ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how in 1928 he discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how in 1928 he discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important ...

Discover the fascinating story of penicillin, an antibiotic that revolutionized the medical world. From its humble beginnings ...

12 years after Fleming's discovery, scientists purified and concentrated penicillin and successfully tested it on humans. This was a boon for soldiers fighting in World War II at the time ...

Deadly bacteria resistant to penicillin, or the more than 100 different ... The challenge is that it's much more difficult to discover and develop substances that are not also toxic to humans.

Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 at St Mary's Hospital in London, but scientists in Oxford developed it into a viable drug. The plaques were unveiled at the Sir William Dunn ...

In a record-breaking sale, a specimen of mold from the original experiments that led to Alexander Fleming’s world-changing discovery of penicillin has scooped $76,000 at auction. Many were ...

Scientists have known about antibiotic resistance since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, but for a long time they were able to keep ahead of new resistance mechanisms with new ...