Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bags of filled prescriptions, many of them likely antibiotics, wait to be picked up by customers in a New York pharmacy in 2016.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In September 1928, British ...

Well before his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. Less well known is that he also painted with living organisms. Corbis Even to scientists, the question ...

A dried sample of the original Penicillium mold that Fleming discovered in 1928. Cade Martin For many people, a bloom of mold symbolizes failure. But this small medallion of mold, its two dots of ...

The international auction house Bonhams is hoping to get $50,000 for a decades-old sample of mold. As for why it’s presented as an art piece and how it ended up for sale, one needs to know about the ...

While most people credit Alexander Fleming for the discovery of antibiotics, ancient texts suggest that he likely wasn’t the first to leverage bacteria as medicine. Long before Alexander Fleming’s ...

A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch up to $50,000. LONDON -- A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the ...

Both Sir Alexander Fleming and the penicillin he discovered have recently come in for some unkind words. In Britain, critics complain that Fleming got a bigger share than he deserved of the credit for ...

Sept. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 490 B.C., the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon. A Greek soldier named Pheidippides ran more than 26 miles to tell Athenians of the victory and died ...