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 ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany. *Mais oui! It was the Frenchman who landed the first punch. Pasteur was the first to challenge old barmy beliefs, hypothesising that ...

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 ...

This 1930s educational film chronicles the advancements in medicine, emphasizing the pivotal role of Louis Pasteur in laying the foundation for modern medical practices. It illustrates the ...

This Editorial highlights the legacy of Louis Pasteur, one of the founding fathers of microbiology, and the Institute he founded 120 years ago. Together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch ...

That is how the story that was read to me as a young child began. It was about a man named Louis Pasteur who believed in himself and believed in the existence of germs. Because he believed in ...

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 ...

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 ...