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

The ‘Penicillin Girls’ Made One of the World’s Most Life-Saving Discoveries Possible The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming’s innovation ...

Fleming discovers penicillin 1928 - 1945. Photo: Alexander Fleming's photo of the dish with bacteria and Penicillin mold. Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's ...

Well that's exactly what happened on 28 September 1928, when Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, found a substance called penicillin that transformed the history of medicine.

LONDON (WKRC) - A small container full of mold involved in Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin from nearly 100 years ago will soon go to auction and is expected to fetch tens of thousands ...

In his lifetime, Fleming realized that his discovery could be endangered by antibiotic resistance and warned of the dangers in his Nobel lecture in 1945. "The time may come when penicillin can be ...

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of Penicillium mold when he found it growing in his less-than-tidy lab at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London in 1928 ...