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Painting With Penicillin: Alexander Fleming's Germ Art

Alexander Fleming's microbial art paintings were technically very difficult to make. He had to find microbes with different pigments and then time his inoculation such that the different species all matured at the same time.

    Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum (Imperial College Healthcare NHs Trust)


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