penicillin

The discoveries of penicillin, radioactivity and weird stars called pulsars all came from odd results that could easily have been dismissed.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Italian penicillin nonnas have been several centuries ahead of me on that front.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

One of those compounds was probenecid, a medication originally introduced in the 1940s to help conserve scarce supplies of penicillin by reducing how much of the antibiotic was excreted in urine.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

Founded in 1874 by a group of friends in a dancing club, Hearts has been playing organized soccer since before the great Scottish inventions of the telephone, penicillin, or the deep-fried Mars bar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

“I can give you penicillin for the strep, but there’s not much I can do for the mono. You’ll have to wait it out. Still, once we’ve cleared out the strep, you should feel better.”

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Some bacteria have developed the ability to break down beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillins and cephalosporins, making them ineffective.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

"The fungus growing on the hedgehog was releasing penicillins," explained Prof Holmes.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2022

The second were synthetic penicillins, modified in the lab to resist the bugs' enzymes.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2013

It steadily gained resistance against entire classes of antibiotics: first the penicillins in the 1960s, then the tetracyclines in the 1980s, and Cipro and its chemical cousins, known as fluoroquinolones, in the 1990s.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 2012

By the middle of the century, Fleming's discovery had spawned a huge pharmaceutical industry, churning out synthetic penicillins that would conquer some of mankind's most ancient scourges, including syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.

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