Well before his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. Less well known is that he also painted with living organisms. Corbis Even to scientists, the question ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bags of filled prescriptions, many of them likely antibiotics, wait to be picked up by customers in a New York pharmacy in 2016.

While most people credit Alexander Fleming for the discovery of antibiotics, ancient texts suggest that he likely wasn’t the first to leverage bacteria as medicine. Long before Alexander Fleming’s ...

The musical, on the global threat of antibiotic resistance, features a chorus of 60 NHS workers.

Sept. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 490 B.C., the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon. A Greek soldier named Pheidippides ran more than 26 miles to tell Athenians of the victory and died ...