penicillin

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

Some important drugs, including penicillin, rely on small ring-shaped molecules that store large amounts of internal tension.

From Science Daily ● May 20, 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

Testing revealed the most common species was penicillium chrysogenum, famous because it is used to produce the penicillin antibiotic but it can cause allergic reactions or infections in people with compromised immune systems.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

It will take nearly a century for science to develop the first "antibiotic," penicillin, to counter infections.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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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