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 ...

In the duchy of medical history, few achievements are as remarkable as the development of the rabies vaccine by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur in 1885. This groundbreaking ...

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 ...

Scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have praised British mediator John Skehel for doing "a great job" in helping resolve a row over whether the institute should relocate. They believe his ...

The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope ... In doing so, he created the science of bacteriology. He identified the bacteria which caused ...

which enabled scientists to see germs and bacteria in more detail than had been possible before. The next great breakthrough came in the 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister’s microscope ...