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  • Place an old boot in a moist place, or expose common paste or a pot of jam to the air; it soon becomes coated with a blue-green mould, which is nothing else than the fructification of a little plant called Penicillium glaucum.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • But I believe the experts when they tell me that my Aspergillus/Penicillium is at number 4+, my Cladosporium is on overload, because I have been on overload for some time now.

    Pamela Alma Weymouth: Goodbye Married Life! Pamela Alma Weymouth 2011

  • But I believe the experts when they tell me that my Aspergillus/Penicillium is at number 4+, my Cladosporium is on overload, because I have been on overload for some time now.

    Pamela Alma Weymouth: Goodbye Married Life! Pamela Alma Weymouth 2011

  • The green model is the Penicillium Chrysogenum, a common green mold and the latest one is Trichoides.

    Moyashimon Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

  • Like the Penicillium mold, which produces penicillin, bacteria also produce antibiotics to wage chemical warfare on other microbes.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Like the Penicillium mold, which produces penicillin, bacteria also produce antibiotics to wage chemical warfare on other microbes.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Like the Penicillium mold, which produces penicillin, bacteria also produce antibiotics to wage chemical warfare on other microbes.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Aspergillus, Alternaria, Botrytis, Fusarium, and Rhizopus simply do not occur and even Penicillium are rare [49].

    Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009

  • In 1928, Alexander Fleming famously noticed the phenomenon that a substance within a mold spores of Penicillium notatum, it turned out inhibited the growth of a culture of staphylococci bacteria and realized this might have use in treating infection.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • Transforming the Penicillium effect into a working therapy first meant isolating and purifying the active substance in the Penicillium mold; then its chemical structure had to be worked out; then its curative powers had to be demonstrated in clinical trials; and finally production methods had to be developed.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

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