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 ...

We’re all familiar with the phenomenon of unintended consequences. Well, in this case, we have the emergence of unintended ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...