The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...d Fleming named the active ingredient in the mold penicillin .Alexander Fleming, busy making history in his lab...  ...he accident-inspired invention came just in time: Penicillin was mass-produced during World War II and has sav...

When the first antibiotic, penicillin , was new, it was a very precious commodity. Pharm...  ...tists had an ace up their sleeves: they knew that penicillin could be recycled, by collecting a patient’...  ...squo;s urine!After one administration of injected penicillin , an...

In 1928, British biologist Alexander Fleming disco...  ...r Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin . That discovery has led to millions of human live...  ...to millions of human lives saved. But to Fleming, penicillin was more than a biological wonder. It was also an...