By 1943, someone finally did strike gold with the most productive penicillin mold from a musty melon—a mysterious woman history has nicknamed “Moldy Mary.” Alexander Fleming made a number of ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory ... He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked with the ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah is an Assistant Editor at ...

Researchers made a “huge breakthrough” when they did an experiment “purely out of curiosity” which solves “a decades-long ...

It took World War II to revitalize interest in penicillin, and Howard Florey and Ernst Chain picked up the work. In recognition for his contribution, Alexander Fleming was knighted in 1944.

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 ...

UW-La Crosse students discover new fungi with potential to fight antibiotic resistance. Hands-on learning in Medical Mycology ...

The story of penicillin - the first antibiotic used successfully to treat people with serious infectious diseases - begins with a bit of luck. Alexander Fleming, a British scientist, noticed in ...

Between the traditional cottages and smattering of shops on the main street, a giant, technicolour mural of Sir Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin, now looks out over the town.

We don’t often think of fungi in pharma, but that is, of course, where penicillin comes from. The antibiotic substance earned ...

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 ...

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of ... the substance “mold juice,” later changing it to “penicillin,” after the fungus that produced it.