Penicillin Research Paper

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All great things come from a singular object, for example the human body started with a single cell combining with another singular cell, buildings are built from the single base up and computers and electronics were built up from an idea, and the revolutionary medicine called penicillin came from a single mold spore. It was an extremely potent antibacterial medicine and it is still in use today, but from where did it start? And how did become so widely used?Alexander Fleming had just returned from his month long vacation, having returned he at once set to work on his bacterial cultures, after tending to them he noticed that one of the cultures had a blue-green colored mold in it, and to his surprise he found that the bacteria was dissolving, …show more content…

At this time the world war was raging all over Europe, and soldiers were dying not only at the hands of soldiers but from bacteria that had set into their wounds as well.In the year 1939 ,ten years after Dr.Fleming presented his findings, Dr.Howard Florey and four other colleagues began to do intensive studies on the properties on penicillin, they succeeded in proving their findings, but only one problem stood in the path of the development of the medicine, “Scientists could not produce the quantities of penicillin needed for clinical trials on humans” stumped by how to grow a mold in bountiful quantities like corn is on fields, the British turned to their American allies for a solution.Dr. Howard Florey and his companion Dr. Norman Heatley flew to the U.S with a small package containing a sample of penicillin to begin with, they set to work with American scientists to produce a way of growing this mold in larger quantities, the end product was a complex with deep vats that had air constantly pumped in and out of them filled with a form of non-alcoholic liquor and other

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