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 petri dish, but injected it in live mice. With controlled ...

While experimenting on the disease-causing Staphylococcus aureus bacterium, the sharp-eyed Fleming noticed protective halos around some flecks of blue-green mold, which were inhibiting the ...

after the Penicillium mould that produced it. His discovery was an amazing piece of luck. If Fleming hadn't left a petri dish of bacteria on his bench when he went on holidays; if he had properly ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how ... while he was away on holiday. A blob of mould had grown on a dirty dish in his lab. All around the mouldy blob, there ...

He found a blue-green mould growing in one of the petri dishes. Intrigued, his mind went probing on the cause of contamination. Soon Fleming realised he had stumbled upon a discovery that would be ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how ... while he was away on holiday. A blob of mould had grown on a dirty dish in his lab. All around the mouldy blob, there ...