Alexander Fleming extracted the revolutionary antibiotic penicillin from the fungus Penicillium rubens, a discovery that ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long ...

A "lost" portrait by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens has been rediscovered after almost 400 years. The 17th Century Flemish artist's "head study" of the Duke of Buckingham was identified by Dr ...

Penicillium notatum is no exception, as we have obtained mutant 'sectors' in abundance following irradiation, and occasionally without irradiation. All 'sectors' isolated gave rise to mutant ...

very unusual. He took a sample of the mold. He found that it was from the penicillium family, later specified as Penicillium notatum. Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they raised little ...