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 ...

A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch up to $50,000 when it goes up for auction later this month. The medallion was created and ...

In a move that could lead to new innovations in antibiotic production, the genome of a freeze-dried sample of Sir Alexander Fleming's original mold that led to his discovery of penicillin has been ...

There is hardly an adult American who at some point hasn’t needed antibiotics — for bronchitis or a urinary tract infection, ...

LONDON (WKRC) - A small container full of mold involved in Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin from nearly 100 years ago will soon go to auction and is expected to fetch tens of thousands of ...

Researchers recently sequenced the genome of the mold that produced the world’s first true antibiotic, penicillin. When biologists Ayush Pathak and Timothy Barraclough (both of Imperial College London ...

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