Whoo-Boy! It’s penicillin all over again
Bookworm on Jun 30 2008 | Filed under: Medicine
We all know the story of penicillin’s discovery: it arose from a lab accident when Alexander Fleming noticed that an accidental mold was killing bacteria. That coincidental discovery changed the modern world. It looks as if we can be seeing another pencillin moment, with an accidental fungus leading the way in the fight against cancer [...]
