Antibiotics in Action - Pharmaceutical Achievers

Stories and More

Welcome to Antibiotics in Action
Brewing for Millenia
Enzyme Basics: Science and History
Germs from Nowhere: Spontaneous Generation
Gallons of Prevention: Worth 300 Milligrams of Cure
Bugs Fighting Back: Basics of Bacterial Resistance
Evolution and Disease
Salt: The First Antibiotic
Honey—Yes, UFOs—No
Digging for a Cure
Mold is for Wimps: Antibiotics from Big Scary Reptiles
Of Rabbits and Mycology
Alexander Fleming: Pharmaceutical Achiever
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain: Pharmaceutical Achievers
Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown: Pharmaceutical
Achievers
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Pharmaceutical Achiever

Chemistry Activities
Making Aspirin
Fermentation by Yeast
Fractional Distillation
Clocking a Reaction
Molecular Size: Oleic Acid
Monolayers
X-Ray Vision: Crystallography
Comparing Catalysts
Enzyme Specificity: Adventures in
Digestion

Biology Activities

Medicine from Dirt: Isolating Actinomycetes
Cell Membranes
Spallanzani and Pasteur: Re-creating
Their Experiments
Name That Actinomycete: Isolating Soil
Organisms
Observing Cells: Using Stains
Resistance in Bacteria
Culturing Bacteria: Isolation and
Identification

Resources

Web Sites
Print and Media
Glossary
General Safety Guidelines
Microbiology Safety Guidelines
About the Authors
Teacher's Guide

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Image Credits

Bacteria: Courtesy NASA.
Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown: Gift of Rachel Fuller Brown.
The New Guinea Crocodile: Photo by Philip M. Hall, copyright © 1996 Crocodile Specialist Group, University of Florida.
Penicillin packages: Courtesy Marvin Samson Center for the History of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

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