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 ...

Nearly a century ago, Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin sparked a revolution in medicine and transformed the fight against infectious diseases. Antibiotics, alongside improvements ...

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is now revolutionizing the medical sector, particularly in the discovery of new antibiotics. Thanks to AI, new antibiotics have been discovered in a fraction ...

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 ...

In the “Golden Age” of antibiotic discovery during the 1950s and ’60s, pharmaceutical companies, research institutions and scientists joined forces in a global hunt for life-saving compounds. They ...

Millions of people believe they can’t take the life-saving drug, but most can. An award-winning program is helping UVA ...

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, much worse ...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool, working with international collaborators, have discovered Novltex, a groundbreaking new class of antibiotics with potent activity against some of the world’s ...