Dr. Larry Corey, an internationally renowned virologist and former president and director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, received the Alexander Fleming Award for lifetime achievement. It was ...

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.

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house.

Chances are, you don’t know who Alexander Fleming was or who discovered penicillin. Now you know both. Fleming’s discovery – one of the most civilization-changing events ever – is a story ...

Dr. Fleming coined the term “Metabesity,” which refers to the constellation of chronic diseases, cancer, and the aging process itself, all which share common metabolic root causes and ...

The mural, designed by Glasgow-based artist Rogue One, is not the first tribute to Fleming in Darvel. He was born at Lochfield Farm in August 1881, about four miles (6.4km), from the town's centre ...