LONDON (AP) — How much is an old, dried out piece of mold worth? Apparently more than $14,600 if it was created by the doctor who discovered penicillin. The nearly 90-year-old swatch of mold has a ...

Scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the mold could kill bacteria. — -- A mold sample may seem like an unlikely prize, but a sample of penicillin mold pulled in more than $14,000 when it was ...

In a move that could lead to new innovations in antibiotic production, the genome of a freeze-dried sample of Sir Alexander Fleming's original mold that led to his discovery of penicillin has been ...

LONDON (WKRC) - A small container full of mold involved in Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin from nearly 100 years ago will soon go to auction and is expected to fetch tens of thousands of ...

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Researchers recently sequenced the genome of the mold that produced the world’s first true antibiotic, penicillin. When biologists Ayush Pathak and Timothy Barraclough (both of Imperial College London ...