Positively arctic conditions compared to what we started the week with. And there’s the intro. My brain isn’t working, my fingers are sweating and no good will come from me rambling on. Enjoy your ...

As I flailed upon my fever bed recently, I was mumbling her poignant lyrics through my delirium — “I’m holding on for dear ...

A new public exhibition space could come to Paddington as part of a proposed medical centre by Imperial College London.

Penicillin was discovered in London by Professor Alexander Fleming in 1928. Despite attempts to produce a usable medicine from the bacteria-killing mould, this had not been achieved by the start of ...

On May 25, 1940, lethal doses of streptococci bacteria were used to infect eight mice. Four of these were then administered injections of penicillin, helping them to survive days to weeks, even as the ...

The ‘Penicillin Girls’ Made One of the World’s Most Life-Saving Discoveries Possible The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming’s innovation ...

Between the traditional cottages and smattering of shops on the main street, a giant, technicolour mural of Sir Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin, now looks out over the town.

Ayrshire Live Ayrshire News Alexander Fleming mural unveiled in Ayrshire town to mark anniversary As part of celebrations to mark 100 years since the discovery of penicillin, a mural to Alexander ...

We don’t often think of fungi in pharma, but that is, of course, where penicillin comes from. The antibiotic substance earned three of its discoverers — Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey and ...

It was auctioned off previously, as part of a lot of Fleming/penicillin memorabilia, in 2017. That lot went for £15,000 (roughly $19,350), and was reportedly sold to a direct descendant of Fleming.

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 be ...