In a record-breaking sale, a specimen of mold from the original experiments that led to Alexander Fleming’s world-changing ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long ...

From penicillin and anesthesia to saccharin and silly putty, chance played a major role in some of the world's great ...

LONDON (WKRC) - A small container full of mold involved in Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin from nearly 100 years ago will soon go to auction and is expected to fetch tens of thousands ...

One of the original samples of Alexander Fleming’s penicillin mold. / Bonhams (mold), Colors Hunter - Chasseur de Couleurs/Moment/Getty Images (background) The international auction house ...

A medallion of mould used in Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin’s antibacterial properties achieved a record price of $76,000 (£58,500) including buyer’s premium at Bonhams’ History of ...

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming children ...

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 ...

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is now accepting applications for two summer internship programs. Both programs are ...

In 1928, physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria covered in mould, which, he was astonished to note, stopped the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is now accepting applications for two summer internship programs. Both programs are paid, eight-week biomedical research internships.