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 ...

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 ...

The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope, discovered germs and revolutionised medical knowledge. In 1861, Pasteur published his germ theory and ...

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 ...