There’s an oft-quoted maxim that youngsters growing up on farms have a much stronger immune system than those growing up in cities. The idea is that they are exposed to far more dirt and eat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, Louis ...