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 ...

Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they raised little interest. He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked ...

He first colorfully dubbed the substance “mold juice,” later changing it to “penicillin,” after the fungus that produced it. Fleming announced his discovery’s infection-fighting ...

Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but raised little interest. He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several weeks later, Fleming figured out that the mold belonged to the genus Penicillium. He decided to call the mold's active ingredient that was killing the bacteria "penicillin," one of the ...

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The discovery of the original antibiotic remains one of the most remarkable success stories in medicine. So why do we know ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn of the dangers of antibiotic resistance. In his 1945 Nobel Prize speech ...

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 ...