Bettany Hughes

A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin - and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.

Tom Wolfe

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

American Journalist

James Buchan

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

British Novelist

Howard Florey

Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.

Australian Scientist

Corbin Bernsen

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

American Actor

Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.

Scottish Politician

Alok Sharma

From the radio and the world wide web, to the steam engine and penicillin, for generations the U.K. has been a world-leader in science and research.

British Politician

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

British Scientist

Katherine Dunn

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

American Novelist

Tommy Cooper

I'm recovering from a cold. I'm so full of penicillin that, if I sneeze, I'll cure someone.

British Comedian

Used specifically for treating certain bacterial infections, not viruses.

Medical Treatment

Some people are allergic to penicillin, which is critical for safe usage.

Allergy Warning

Avoid using 'penicillin' for common colds; it's ineffective against viral infections.

Not for Colds

Recognized as the first antibiotic and marks a revolution in medicine.

Historical Milestone

It’s a natural product sourced from a specific type of fungus.

Biological Source

Penicillin allergies are among the most common drug allergies.

Allergy Commonness

Penicillin was found by chance, changing the way we think of mold.

Accidental Discovery

Not all Penicillium molds produce the antibiotic; only certain ones do.

Specific Strains

Penicillin is a secondary metabolite of the mold, not its primary output.

Substance Production

 They were enticed into the study through being given free medical exams, burial insurance. And so, what happened through the course of this study, is penicillin was discovered to help treat syphilis. And what Peter noticed was, the participants in this study were not given the penicillin

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 For the time being, they remain some of the most important, life-saving antibiotics used in medicine. However, the more we use any antibiotic, the more bacteria evolve resistance to it. In the case of penicillin, some bacteria produce compounds that can break down the key structure

The accident that...

 cicadas pharmaceutical companies i tell people all the time i i really think that these interactions between insect destroying fungi and their insect host is the next frontier for drug discovery after all we have fungi to thank for penicillin and also statins which help lower

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 the rainbow of developing countries, with very large families and poor child survival. What has happened? I start the world. Here we go. Can you see, as the years pass by, child survival is increasing? They get soap, hygiene, education, vaccination, penicillin

Hans Rosling: Global...

 And it was only through the industrialized fermentation of penicillin that millions could survive infectious diseases. Fermentation could once again play an important role in our human development. Could it represent a new mode of survival

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 chronic illness was actually a severe under allergy to penicillin as well as some other allergies to gluten to titanium dioxide to food dyes and a mild intolerance to glucose these diagonals was truly empowering and life-saving but

Making food transparent...

 If you toss in the book and the wheel, it's a little bit older. Or the axe. But your phone, your sneakers, these chairs, modern manufacturing, penicillin -- the things we cherish. Now, that to me means

What AI is -- and isn't...

 we continue this way we are few decades away to be completely helpless in front of infections just like we were before the discovery of penicillin 90 years ago so you see the reality is that we are at

The secrets of spider...

 most of you this is a device to buy sell play games watch videos I think it might be a lifeline I think actually it might be able to save more lives than penicillin texting I know I say texting

Texting that saves lives...

 flasks to ten thousand gallon vats that was how quickly penicillin was produced and became one of the greatest medical advance