Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) do not attain a stable secondary or tertiary structure and rapidly change their ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah is an Assistant Editor at ...

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I. His battlefront experience had shown him how serious a killer bacteria could be ...

Studying drug-induced metabolic changes with high-throughput systems shed light on drug modes of action, providing an ...

Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...

Alexander Fleming, a British scientist, noticed in 1928 that mould had prevented the growth of bacteria in his lab. But the main plot of the story involves the rediscovery of penicillin 10 years ...

In 1928, physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria covered in mould, which, he was astonished to note, stopped the ...

Last week I mentioned ‘random acts of kindness’ and how they can affect lives for good. The story above in almost certainly not true but illustrates acts of kindness and their possible results. ‘Let ...

Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...