The Mold That Saved Two Hundred Million Lives
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a petri dish he'd accidentally left...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 1:16.
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a petri dish he'd accidentally left uncovered. A bluish-green mold had contaminated the sample, and around it, the deadly staphylococcus bacteria had died. Fleming's discovery of penicillin didn't look like much. A smudge of fungus on a glass dish. His colleagues were unimpressed.…
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