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In 1928, Alexander Fleming Returned From Vacation: Found Mold in a Petri Dish and Discovered Penicillin, Changing Medicine ForeverA forgotten petri dish led to a groundbreaking discovery. Alexander Fleming observed mold inhibiting bacteria, a finding later developed in...
Alexander Fleming’s Forgotten Petri Dish Sparked the Antibiotic RevolutionA chance observation in Alexander Fleming's London lab in 1928 led to a medical revolution. Fleming noticed mold killing bacteria in a petr...
Quote of the day by Howard Florey: ‘Great ideas often come from unexpected places; never underestimate…’Howard Florey, alongside his Oxford team, transformed Alexander Fleming's 1928 discovery into a life-saving drug. Their crucial work in iso...
The penicillin war: India's journey from self-sufficiency to dependence on ChinaAfter India lost its dominance in making penicillin, a drought of three decades is coming to an end. The drug – which forms the base for a ...
All it takes: 1% god's graceLook at how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Upon returning from a vacation, Fleming checked on colonies of staphylococcus bacteria...
Kariko and Weissman win medicine Nobel for COVID-19 vaccine workThe 2023 NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleos...
Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize in MedicineLast year's recipients were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touc...
From anaesthesia to penicillin: Drugs that changed the world, for better or worseIt's a good reminder that today's wonder drug may be tomorrow's problem drug.
View: Time to “Florey” the Digital Infrastructure for accelerated growthIndia started on the long, difficult but exciting path of providing digital connectivity with several optical fibre projects for BSNL and d...
Eight productivity myths bustedHere are the things we think we should be doing in order to be more productive, but actually don't need to do!
Guru Madhavan's Applied Minds: Engineering solutions that make a big differenceGuru Madhavan's book, Applied Minds, is full of such stories of engineers who worked against odds to come up with solutions that made a big...
Scientists create new antibiotic Teixobactin in 30 yearsTeixobactin can treat many common bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, septicemia and C Diff or clostridium difficile colitis.
Four wins, one defeat for Indians at Australian Open todaySania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna won both their respective doubles and mixed doubles matches to enter the third round of the showpiece event h...
Cadila Pharma, Helperby sign licensing deal on antibiotic drug resistanceDescribed as the most important innovation in the discovery of antibiotics since Alexander Fleming's original breakthrough more than 80 yea...
Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Helperby sign licensing deal on antibiotic drug resistanceHelperby will supply Cadila Pharma with Antibiotic Resistance Breakers whilst Cadila will develop the combinations with old antibiotics.