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 ...

Story claims Alexander Fleming’s dad saved Winston Churchill from drowning & latter’s father then financed Fleming’s ...

It’s the mycelial spark that touched off an antibiotic revolution. Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of Penicillium mold when he found it growing in his less ...

Fleming’s happy accident, which led to the discovery of penicillin at St Mary’s Hospital in London, has saved millions of lives. But almost a century on, the world faces the threat of a post ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even then, Alexander Fleming, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for the discovery, warned in his 1945 Nobel Prize speech that misuse of the drug could lead to antibiotic resistance. Indeed, within two ...

Sadly, this fate was predicted more than 70 years ago, when the first antibiotics hit the market. In 1928, Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming made an accidental discovery while experimenting ...

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

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 ...