He first colorfully dubbed the substance “mold juice,” later changing it to “penicillin,” after the fungus that produced it. Fleming announced his discovery’s infection-fighting ...

If you've been diagnosed with an environmental Penicillium mold allergy, you might wonder if that means you could have a penicillin allergy or food allergies, too. An environmental mold allergy is ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah is an Assistant Editor at ...

He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked with the mold for some time, but refining and growing it was a difficult ...

Benji Jones: You could say there are two types of mold: the good and the bad. Penicillium notatum, for example, gave rise to the drug penicillin. Which, by some estimates, has saved at least 200 ...

The story of penicillin - the first antibiotic used successfully to treat people with serious infectious diseases - begins with a bit of luck. Alexander Fleming, a British scientist, noticed in ...

like the mold that goes into making cheese, soy sauce, and even life-saving antibiotics, like penicillin. Eating a little bit on your bread can't be that bad, right? Ultimately, it's a gamble.