Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, has announced that the renowned scientific journal “Nature Biotechnology” is publishing a ...

Penicillin was the world's first antibiotic, a type of medication that kills or slows the growth of bacteria. After Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in a petri dish containing ...

For over 100 years, it was assumed that the penicillin-producing mould fungus Penicillium chrysogenum only reproduced asexually through spores. An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Ulrich ...

Reprogramming the antibiotics-producing fungus Penicillium chrysogenum, with discovery and engineering of a cytochrome P450 enzyme involved in the hydroxylation of the precursor compactin, enabled ...

The discovery of penicillin kick-started the antibiotic revolution. But a forensic-style investigation of the lab in which Alexander Fleming discovered the world-famous fungus suggests the Nobel ...

The genome of Sir Alexander Fleming’s original penicillin-producing fungus has been unravelled for the first time. It could lead to the the development of new drugs to overcome problems of resistance, ...

Pirt, S. J., and Callow, D. S., “The Continuous Culture of Penicillium chrysogenum”, read at meeting of the Society of Applied Bacteriology, January 14, 1959 (to ...

IN the course of a study of the acid-soluble nucleotides occurring in the mycelium of Penicillium chrysogenum 1 we isolated a compound having a typical adenosine ultra-violet spectrum, and showing the ...

About 100 years ago, Alexander Fleming demonstrated the formation of penicillin in Penicillium chrysogenum. To date, there is no other known producer of the antibiotic penicillin, which has an annual ...