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

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 ...

We don’t often think of fungi in pharma, but that is, of course, where penicillin comes from. The antibiotic substance earned three of its discoverers — Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey and ...

Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...

Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers that fungus containing penicillin can destroy bacteria. Dr. Tilli Tansey explains Read her words 1940 An Oxford-based team of scientists under Howard ...

A mural to the "world hero" who discovered penicillin has been unveiled in his home town 70 years after he died. Darvel native Alexander Fleming will be permanently remembered with the stunning mural ...

Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...