What’s certain: Thanks to a funky cantaloupe’s exceptional ability to produce penicillin—six times the amount of Fleming’s mold—the mass-production of antibiotics was finally possible.

Amid a surge in drug-resistant bacteria, researchers believe they have discovered a new class of antibiotics, three decades ...

Florey explained his inability to produce sufficient quantities of penicillin in war-torn Britain. Weaver determined that the Foundation would fund Florey and Heatley’s travel to the US, where they ...