The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming in 1928The chemical structure of penicillin was worked out using X-ray ...

The biggest problem was producing enough penicillin. This was hard and expensive to accomplish. Florey and another researcher traveled to the U.S. to talk to chemical manufacturers and ended up in ...

All antibiotics chemically target some important function or structure in the bacteria that keeps them alive and growing. One way is to interfere with how the bacteria make their own cell walls.

Dr. Timothy Palzkill, professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology ... to understand details about the structure and function of both groups of the beta-lactamases and their interactions with ...

The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming in 1928The chemical structure of penicillin was worked out using X-ray ...