#13: Penicillin
Modern medicine owes so much to the natural world. There are so many medications and treatments that have been discovered by researching what’s found in plants and animals and trying to replicate it. And that’s what happened with penicillin… kind of. And sort of not.
To start with, penicillin is found in mold, which isn’t precisely a plant or an animal as we think of it. And Alexander Fleming wasn’t intentionally researching something that could kill bacteria. But when he found mold growing on a Petri dish, he noticed that the mold seemed to kill the bacteria on the dish. He dove deeper into studying that mold and eventually created penicillin.
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