Write a brief description of how penicillin was developed.
Penicillin was discovered by accident in Fkening's Lab at St. Mary's Hospital in London between 1928 and 1929. The accidental discovery of a mouldy petri dish in 1928 started a 20 year long journey to create the first mass-produced drug that could clear a bacteria infection. The mould was discovered growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. Dr Alexander Fleming noticed the mould appeared to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He identified that the mould produced a self-defence chemical that was capable of killing the bacteria and he named that substance, penicillin.  