The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor ...

As part of celebrations to mark 100 years since the discovery of penicillin, a mural to Alexander Fleming has been unveiled ...

“X-ray beams are used everywhere, but since the discovery of X-rays in 1895, scientists have not been able to use them to ...

Bacteria have mostly been portrayed as villains that make us sick, but the Human Microbiome Project showed that we share our ...

To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the proposed recipient (nominated by members of the public) must have died ...

Years later, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, which allegedly saved Churchill’s life when he was suffering from pneumonia during World War II. Through this article, let’s fact-check the ...

A letter to the News Chronicle in 1892 described how ‘in many Manx farmhouses and cottages, the Good Friday bun was allowed to hang suspended from the grimy beams of the kitchen ceiling, and there ...

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 ...

If you have ever had an allergic reaction to penicillin, you may have been told to also avoid cephalosporin antibiotics. Most people with penicillin allergy can tolerate cephalosporin antibiotics, but ...