Between the traditional cottages and smattering of shops on the main street, a giant, technicolour mural of Sir Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin, now looks out over the town.

“I hear you’ve been doing things with my old penicillin. I’d be interested to look around.” Thus Alexander Fleming met Howard Florey. As a battlefield doctor in the Great War, Fleming had fought ...

At the heart of the Fleming Initiative is the Fleming Centre at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, on the same site where Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, which will provide ...

It’s the mycelial spark that touched off an antibiotic revolution. Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of Penicillium mold when he found it growing in his less ...

PENICILLIN was first obtained from nutrient broth medium by Sir Alexander Fleming. For systematic investigation of this important antibacterial substance, modified Czapek-Dox medium, with glucose ...

Scotsman Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin, by chance in fungal mould in 1928. Hundreds more have followed but increasingly they are having to be chemically ...

Alexander Monro, appointed the first Professor ... and surgical techniques. In 1847, Sir James Young Simpson introduced chloroform as an aesthetic during childbirth and surgery, revolutionising ...

A much-loved Devon woman is among those who have been remembered in this week's funeral notices. Amber Maria Hoddinott passed away at her home in Exeter and will be sadly missed by all of her ...