The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming in 1928The chemical structure of penicillin was worked out using X-ray ...
When bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, it can be deadly ... "We have decoded the molecular structure of an important part of a bacterium called S. aureus. This is the first detailed ...
Often it is the chemical structure of individual bacterial cells that enables them to resist the onslaught of antibiotics. If, for example, a patient fails to take a full course of antibiotics ...