Where is Penicillin found and how is it made into medication?
I'm doing a project about penicillin and I have to find out where it is found or most copious and how is it extracted or made? I'm having no luck with finding these things, so I really need your assist.
Answers:
Basically, Penicillin is just mold. There are several different types of Penicillin, such as Penicllin G, Penicillin V, etc. however, they are the structuraly very similar with of late a few modifications or manufacturing standards being different.
The mold that we synthesize to produce penicillin is pretty much the same type of mold that you would find on a loaf of bread that have gotten to old and begun to get that green mold growing on it. This mold is a yeast mold.
Becaus this is such a elevated demand drug and there is also not Patent on it anymore (meaning anyone can make it) near are many different pharmaceutical companies that produce this antibiotic.
Because the production process has been around for plentiful years and is nothing new, most of these plants use the same production methods to create the drug, however there are many that are now trying to work on developing latest methods or altered yeast organisims that can yeild a greater amount of the mold needed to generate the antibiotic, thus giving them a larger yield from the same amount of raw materials, which vehicle they will make more money.
There was a good article i.e. easy to understand that was within Time Magazine awhile back, check it out:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl…
In the meantime, If you still need more help, afterwards I can speak with a friend of mine that is a chemist at one of the pharmaceutical plats near me and see if he can gain me some more info for you. You can email me at: icpmslabrat(a)yahoo.com if you want any more info. Source(s): Toxicologist
Some other kid asked the same question. I guess you guys are in duplicate school.
Like many scientific discoveries that changed our world, the discovery of penicillin be an accident.
Alexander Fleming, a scientist, was conducting experiments with the use of petri dishes. One daytime, he accidentally dropped some cheese into a petri dish where he intended to grow some Staphylococcus bacteria. Soon after that, Fleming noticed that nearby was a ring/halo around the piece of cheese that had moulded where at hand was no growth of bacteria. This because the cheese allowed a fungi (from the Penicillium family) which released substances that killed the microbes (it's more complicated than just that, actually)
In WW2, the use of penicillin was estimated to have save 12-15% of people from death due to infections of wounds.
Nowadays, it is produced it factories that use more sophisticated technique than mouldy cheese. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_o…
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Answers:
Basically, Penicillin is just mold. There are several different types of Penicillin, such as Penicllin G, Penicillin V, etc. however, they are the structuraly very similar with of late a few modifications or manufacturing standards being different.
The mold that we synthesize to produce penicillin is pretty much the same type of mold that you would find on a loaf of bread that have gotten to old and begun to get that green mold growing on it. This mold is a yeast mold.
Becaus this is such a elevated demand drug and there is also not Patent on it anymore (meaning anyone can make it) near are many different pharmaceutical companies that produce this antibiotic.
Because the production process has been around for plentiful years and is nothing new, most of these plants use the same production methods to create the drug, however there are many that are now trying to work on developing latest methods or altered yeast organisims that can yeild a greater amount of the mold needed to generate the antibiotic, thus giving them a larger yield from the same amount of raw materials, which vehicle they will make more money.
There was a good article i.e. easy to understand that was within Time Magazine awhile back, check it out:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl…
In the meantime, If you still need more help, afterwards I can speak with a friend of mine that is a chemist at one of the pharmaceutical plats near me and see if he can gain me some more info for you. You can email me at: icpmslabrat(a)yahoo.com if you want any more info. Source(s): Toxicologist
Some other kid asked the same question. I guess you guys are in duplicate school.
Like many scientific discoveries that changed our world, the discovery of penicillin be an accident.
Alexander Fleming, a scientist, was conducting experiments with the use of petri dishes. One daytime, he accidentally dropped some cheese into a petri dish where he intended to grow some Staphylococcus bacteria. Soon after that, Fleming noticed that nearby was a ring/halo around the piece of cheese that had moulded where at hand was no growth of bacteria. This because the cheese allowed a fungi (from the Penicillium family) which released substances that killed the microbes (it's more complicated than just that, actually)
In WW2, the use of penicillin was estimated to have save 12-15% of people from death due to infections of wounds.
Nowadays, it is produced it factories that use more sophisticated technique than mouldy cheese. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_o…
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