On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, one of the most important medical developments in history. The ...

The most famous accident in the history of medicine happened because a man did not tidy his laboratory before going on holiday. In the late summer of 1928, Alexander Fleming left a stack of Petri ...

There was a sudden swelling of my feet and a strange rash on my legs and feet. Soon, my calves, too, ballooned. I took to ...

While most people credit Alexander Fleming for the discovery of antibiotics, ancient texts suggest that he likely wasn’t the first to leverage bacteria as medicine. Long before Alexander Fleming’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In September 1928, British ...

Well before his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. Less well known is that he also painted with living organisms. Corbis Even to scientists, the question ...

For something that grows so carelessly and freely on our fruits and breads, mass producing the white mold and its hidden wonder drug penicillin was devilishly difficult. After Alexander Fleming’s ...

The mold that would later lead to the life-saving antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming on Sept. 3, 1928 Getty Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 after noticing mold killing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bags of filled prescriptions, many of them likely antibiotics, wait to be picked up by customers in a New York pharmacy in 2016.

Sept. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 490 B.C., the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon. A Greek soldier named Pheidippides ran more than 26 miles to tell Athenians of the victory and died ...