In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world of airborne microbes. Credit...Antoine Maillard Supported by By Carl ...

While working with the French wine industry in 1848, Dr. Louis Pasteur studied tartaric acid, a blackish purple substance that grows on the back of wine barrels. By studying this byproduct of wine ...

Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of microorganisms in disease and how sickness could be prevented by vaccines. At the time, it was widely believed that ...

“You mean Pasteur,” he said. “I’ll take you there.” Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who kept kennels of mad dogs in a crowded little laboratory and was hounded by medical ...

But the virus’s incubation period also made rabies of interest to Pasteur—already a famous scientist in France—as a candidate for a new type of vaccine. “The time from the bite to the sickness was ...

Borne, science journalist Carl Zimmer roots the “mistake” in the past of a historically neglected field: aerobiology, or the science of airborne life. Zimmer begins his chronicle in the 19th century ...

Zimmer creates a highly relevant and gripping history of the study of the air that spans from Louis Pasteur holding a glass globe on a glacier to scientists racing to fight COVID-19 during the ...

Louis Pasteur’s trepidation at injecting a child with the first rabies vaccine might have reflected his private knowledge of its lack of prior animal testing. NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced ...