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 ...

Between the traditional cottages and smattering of shops on the main street, a giant, technicolour mural of Sir Alexander ...

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 ...

In the book ‘Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution’, a biography of Alexander Fleming, the author, Kevin Brown, stated that Alexander Fleming referred to this story ...

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 ...