Scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the mold could kill bacteria. — -- A mold sample may seem like an unlikely prize, but a sample of penicillin mold pulled in more than $14,000 when it was ...

If you’ve ever had a bacterial infection (strep throat, ear infections, pneumonia, etc.) you’ve probably been administered an antibiotic via injection or pill. This antibiotic was likely penicillin, ...

On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial growth — and accidentally discovered the world's first antibiotic. The Scottish physicist and ...

Both Sir Alexander Fleming and the penicillin he discovered have recently come in for some unkind words. In Britain, critics complain that Fleming got a bigger share than he deserved of the credit for ...

To more colorful colleagues, the bristle-haired Scottish microbe hunter working in a cluttered laboratory at London’s St. Mary’s Hospital seemed downright dull. But he was nothing if not dogged. He ...

A century after Sir Alexander Fleming made two of the most important medical breakthroughs, scientists have unlocked the secret of how his discoveries may contribute to recurrent patient infections.

Sir Alexander Fleming, the Scottish biologist who discovered penicillin and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, visited the Commercial Solvents plant in Terre Haute during a two-day visit to the ...

Typed letter signed in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Inoculation Department, St. Mary's Hospital, London, England. Accompanied by envelope with postmark and cancelled ...