penicillin
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Italian penicillin nonnas have been several centuries ahead of me on that front.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
During World War II, the U.S. government marshaled American companies and universities to solve medical challenges, including the mass production of penicillin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin after mould accidentally contaminated a laboratory dish and killed surrounding bacteria.
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
The doctor asked a nurse to bring some penicillin.
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
To Dr. J. George Feinberg, a U.S. immunologist working at Britain's Beecham Research Laboratories, the killing power of penicillins made no sense.
From Time Magazine Archive
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