From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society, and are used for numerous ...

relatively few new antibiotics or antifungals have been introduced in the present century. And while these drugs have largely remained the same, pathogenic microbes—and the planet—are undergoing rapid ...

An environmental mold allergy is unlikely to increase your risk of an allergy to penicillin or lead to fungi-related food allergies. Having a Penicillium mold allergy doesn't mean that you're ...

“Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists ... one hundred years ago that Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin — from a fungus called Penicillium — that we used to combat ...

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 ...

Alexander Fleming’s identification of the healing properties of penicillin molds in 1928 revolutionized medicine. The strain of fungus that became the main producer worldwide of penicillin was ...

“[The study] extends what we understand about the limits of life on the planet,” molecular geo­microbiologist Heath Mills of the Texas A&M University in College Station, who studied the fungi, told ...

Fungi, in addition to their role as decomposers, underlie the brewing of wines and the production of gourmet cheeses, the rising of bread, and the production of antibiotics. Fungi include edible, ...