penicillin
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Some important drugs, including penicillin, rely on small ring-shaped molecules that store large amounts of internal tension.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
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
He added: "We had this problem last year with penicillin, it's an ongoing issue but it's worsening. We've just been informed that another anti-coagulation medication, apixaban, is now going out of stock."
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 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
“All right, so, B. cepacia is a hardy bacterium. It’s so adaptive that it actually feeds on penicillin instead of being attacked by it. So our first line of defense is...”
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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 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
They are also closely related to the penicillins.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2011
Early penicillins were active mainly against the berry-shaped microbes or cocci, such as streptococci, staphylococci and pneumococci.
From Time Magazine Archive
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