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The 92-Year-Mold That Produced Penicillin, The First Antibiotic, Is Back In The Lab! – Dual Dove
The unexpected discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, when mold affected one of his Petri dishes, shaped modern medicine, with antibiotics being crucial in fighting many diseases ove…
The unexpected discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, when mold affected one of his Petri dishes, shaped modern medicine, with antibiotics being crucial in fighting many diseases over the past century.
Scientists have woken up Fleming’s Penicillium mold and sequenced its genome for the first time in history.
They believe that the information they obtained might help fight off antibiotic resistance.
Tim Barraclough, a professor of the Department of Life Sciences from the Imperia…
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