On September 7, the governor of Russia’s Rostov region, Vasily Golubev, claimed on the state-owned Don 24 TV channel that Soviet scientist Zinaida Ermolyeva invented penicillin: "Zinaida ...

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 ...

When, in 1943, Popular Science named penicillin as one of the top ten medicines in history, the contributing writer and physician, Iago Galdston, cited its superior infection-fighting performance ...

“Penicillin is, I would argue ... Fleming’s work might have been relegated to the scrap heap of history if Ernst Chain, then a biochemist at Oxford University, had not found the 1929 paper nearly a ...

The advent of modern antibiotics contributed enormously to the dramatic extension of human lifespan since their discovery by virtue of their lethal and selective action against pathogenic microbes.