penicillin

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The discovery began with an unexpected laboratory result, similar to many famous scientific breakthroughs including X-rays, penicillin, Viagra and modern weight loss medications.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Common problems that could have been treated with an office visit and a few penicillin pills will blossom into heart-valve infections and organ failure.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

We learn, for example, that there’s far more to the penicillin story than the casual history of Alexander Fleming’s eureka moment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

In one way, it’s funny to hear C-suite executives describing this fried appetizer iteration in the kinds of awestruck tones usually reserved for, like, the discovery of penicillin.

From Slate • Aug. 11, 2025

The great contemporary achievement of modern medicine is the technology for controlling and preventing bacterial infection, but this did not fall into our laps with the appearance of penicillin and the sulfonamides.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas