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The penicillin mould accidentally grown by physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming in London in 1928 has had its genome sequenced for the first time. Researchers from the UK analysed frozen samples of Sir Fleming’s original strain of the fungus — and compared them with their modern, industrially-used counterparts. They found that the wild UK strain used … Read more

The mould that changed the world: Penicillin fungus accidentally grown by Alexander Fleming in 1928 has its genome sequenced for the first time Researchers cultivated mould from frozen samples of Fleming’s original fungus They then compared its genome with those of modern strains used industrially These US versions make penicillin slightly differently to Flemings’ wild … Read more