By 1943, someone finally did strike gold with the most productive penicillin mold from a musty melon—a mysterious woman history has nicknamed “Moldy Mary.” Alexander Fleming made a number of ...

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Welcome to This Day in History! On December 4th, we take a moment to reflect on significant events that have shaped our world ...

Today we know more about the downsides of antibiotics, but penicillin still remains as a significant milestone in the history of medicines.

Since the 1980s very few antibiotics have been approved. One of the reasons is that there is not enough investment in the ...

It’s like making maple syrup,” says Diane Wendt, a curator in the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian’s ...

The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming in 1928The chemical structure of penicillin was worked out using X-ray ...