Fleming made his discovery after he left a plate of bacteria in a sink with dirty dishes. He noticed that when the mold called Penicillium notatum grew on the plate, it killed all the bacteria around ...

He took a sample of the mold. He found that it was from the penicillium family, later specified as penicillium notatum. Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but raised little interest. He published ...

Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin after a petri dish he had left out while on holiday became contaminated with the mould penicillium notatum. He noticed that where the mould grew ...

Fleming discovered that mould (Penicillium notatum) produced an antibacterial substance, leading to the development of penicillin-based antibiotics. These antibiotics revolutionised medicine by ...

Benji Jones: You could say there are two types of mold: the good and the bad. Penicillium notatum, for example, gave rise to the drug penicillin. Which, by some estimates, has saved at least 200 ...