We don’t often consider using do-it-yourself projects as a hedge against the apocalypse. But [The Thought Emporium] thinks we ...

Penicillin is a cornerstone of modern medicine - but how did an old ice cream fridge and a makeshift incubator built by a ...

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.

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 ...

Other species of Aspergillus produce penicillin, the first broad-spectrum antibiotic ever discovered. Alexander Fleming’s identification of the healing properties of penicillin molds in 1928 ...

Liquid containing penicillin was drained from beneath the growing mould and filtered through parachute silk on bookshelves. But the team needed drug companies to help it produce the large amounts ...

Scientists have discovered a new route to produce complex antibiotics exploiting gene editing to re-programme pathways to future medicines urgently required to combat antimicrobial resistance, treat ...