Kenneth White, like so many others, was turned down for the things he needed to begin producing penicillin, but managed to ...

"What are sometimes called superbugs — microbes resistant to every available drug — are not merely the stuff of nightmares.

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.

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

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 ...

With deaths from AMR having increased by over 80% among adults aged 70 and older between 1990 and 2021, and an estimated 4.71 ...

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

“I hear you’ve been doing things with my old penicillin. I’d be interested to look around.” Thus Alexander Fleming met Howard Florey. As a battlefield doctor in the Great War, Fleming had fought ...