Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...

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 ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah joined The Scientist as ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming ... discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important part of the discovery ...

He first colorfully dubbed the substance “mold juice,” later changing it to “penicillin,” after the fungus that produced it. Fleming announced his discovery’s infection-fighting ...

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 ...

12 years after Fleming's discovery, scientists purified and concentrated penicillin and successfully tested it on humans. This was a boon for soldiers fighting in World War II at the time ...

Original culture for the antibiotic penicillinAn original example of the Penicillin Notatum culture, discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming, it was presented to Major General D C Munro of The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nothing was known about the basis for the selective toxicity of penicillin to bacteria despite much work since its discovery by Fleming in 1929 and its purification and introduction into therapy ...