Sentences with phrase «development of penicillin»

Since the development of penicillin and sulfa drugs, the first commercially produced antibiotics, we have sought to improve upon our ability to combat bacteria.

Did you know that animal research played an important part in the development of penicillin, blood transfusions, anaesthetics, deep brain stimulation and insulin for diabetics?

Until Paul Ehrlich's discoveries, however, syphilis could not be treated effectively; indeed, not until the development of penicillin could such treatment be carried out easily and safely.

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Her lab later came up with structures for penicillin, which influenced the development of antibiotics, and for vitamin B - 12, which her group determined with the aid of one of the first electronic computers.

Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances — including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo - biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, and most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain - injured patient.

The paradigm of medicine as a semi-useless and semi-horrifying profession began to shift with the development of antibiotics — starting with penicillin in 1928.