along with the sheer number of secondary metabolites that that have been unearthed so far, has reinvigorated interest in fungal drug discovery. Unlike the serendipity and secrecy that characterized ...

Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...

Will Bulsiewicz, M.D. is a respected gastroenterologist who wrote “Fiber Fueled.” Today’s column is based on this book. For ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how in 1928 he discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important ...