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Today you learn about the true history of penicillin,

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Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Do you know the real story of penicillin?

Let's get into a little science history myth busting.

Here's what you probably know.

In 1928, Alexander Fleming was growing bacteria and Petri dishes in his lab

when he noticed that one had started growing mold.

That mold had cleared a spot in the bacteria,

which suggested that it might have antibacterial properties.

Fleming named the mold penicillin,

and it became the world's first antibiotic.

It cured thousands of previously untreatable infections and spawned a new era of human health.

That's the story anyway.

But while the first part is true, the facts get hazy as the story goes on.

Here's the problem with Fleming's discovery. The strain of penicillium mold that he found camping out in his bacterial colonies was really hard to reproduce.

Fleming and his assistants at St Mary's Hospital tried for weeks to grow more of the stuff and to isolate pure penicillin from the bacteria killing fluid that seeped out from the mold,

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