Winston Churchill's push to obtain penicillin in time to treat casualties expected from D-Day has come to light in documents ...

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 ...

Antibiotics are medicines used to treat bacterial infections. Traces of antibiotics were found in human skeletons from ancient times dating back to 350 – 550 CE. In the ancient Egyptian era ...

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.