Scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the mold could kill bacteria. — -- A mold sample may seem like an unlikely prize, but a sample of penicillin mold pulled in more than $14,000 when it was ...

Both Sir Alexander Fleming and the penicillin he discovered have recently come in for some unkind words. In Britain, critics complain that Fleming got a bigger share than he deserved of the credit for ...

On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial growth — and accidentally discovered the world's first antibiotic. The Scottish physicist and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In September 1928, British ...

Penicillin was the world's first antibiotic, a type of medication that kills or slows the growth of bacteria. After Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in a petri dish containing ...

To more colorful colleagues, the bristle-haired Scottish microbe hunter working in a cluttered laboratory at London’s St. Mary’s Hospital seemed downright dull. But he was nothing if not dogged. He ...

The biologist Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin on this date in 1928, but this revolutionary event may not have occurred if Sir Fleming had been fastidious with ...

A century after Sir Alexander Fleming made two of the most important medical breakthroughs, scientists have unlocked the secret of how his discoveries may contribute to recurrent patient infections.

Sir Alexander Fleming, the Scottish biologist who discovered penicillin and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, visited the Commercial Solvents plant in Terre Haute during a two-day visit to the ...

Researchers recently sequenced the genome of the mold that produced the world’s first true antibiotic, penicillin. When biologists Ayush Pathak and Timothy Barraclough (both of Imperial College London ...