To treat bacterial infections, medical professionals prescribe antibiotics. But not all active medicine gets used up by the ...

The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming in 1928The chemical structure of penicillin was worked out using X-ray ...

Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin ... on X-ray imaging to determine the ...

With most foods, spotting gray veins with specks of blue mold accompanied by a quick ... in the same family as the one that the antibiotic Penicillin is made from. Unlike other molds, Penicillium ...

While experimenting on the disease-causing Staphylococcus aureus bacterium, the sharp-eyed Fleming noticed protective halos around some flecks of blue-green mold, which were inhibiting the ...

Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs ... PBPs bind β-lactam antibiotics because their chemical structure is similar to that of the sugar–amino acid backbone that forms peptidoglycan.