1928 - 1945 Photo: Alexander Fleming's photo of the dish with bacteria and Penicillin mold Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I.

Scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the mold could kill bacteria. — -- A mold sample may seem like an unlikely prize, but a sample of penicillin mold pulled in more than $14,000 when it ...

The Oxford team, as Florey's researchers have become known, began experimenting with the penicillin mold. They took it one step further than Fleming did: they did not just try it topically or in a ...

In his lifetime, Fleming realized that his discovery could be endangered by antibiotic resistance and warned of the dangers in his Nobel lecture in 1945. "The time may come when penicillin can be ...

Alexander Fleming famously discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928 while working at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, which is now part of Imperial College London.

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 ...

Sept. 24 (UPI) -- In 1928, scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin. The antibiotic was produced by a mold that had started growing in a Petri dish in Fleming's lab.

1928 - 1945 Photo: Alexander Fleming's photo of the dish with bacteria and Penicillin mold Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I.