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 ...

A story about Winston Churchill and Alexander Fleming is being widely circulated on social media platforms (here, here, here, here, and here).According to this story, a young Winston Churchill was ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I. His battlefront experience had shown him how serious a killer bacteria could be ...