Alexander Fleming was doing experiments with bacteria when he woke up to a strange mold growing in his petri dish. The "mold juice" would usher in the first antibiotic, penicillin, and would ...

September 1928. A London laboratory sits empty while its owner takes a summer holiday. When Alexander Fleming finally comes back, his workspace is exactly as messy as he left it, including a stack of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bags of filled prescriptions, many of them likely antibiotics, wait to be picked up by customers in a New York pharmacy in 2016.

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. The Fleming children ...

The discovery of penicillin kick-started the antibiotic revolution. But a forensic-style investigation of the lab in which Alexander Fleming discovered the world-famous fungus suggests the Nobel ...

A dried sample of the original Penicillium mold that Fleming discovered in 1928. Cade Martin For many people, a bloom of mold symbolizes failure. But this small medallion of mold, its two dots of ...

Some of the world's most important discoveries were never part of the original plan. History shows that breakthroughs often happen when curious minds remain open to the unexpected instead of focusing ...

Well before his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. Less well known is that he also painted with living organisms. Corbis Even to scientists, the question ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In September 1928, British ...

While most people credit Alexander Fleming for the discovery of antibiotics, ancient texts suggest that he likely wasn’t the first to leverage bacteria as medicine. Long before Alexander Fleming’s ...