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 ...

Some of the greatest scientific discoveries haven’t resulted in Nobel Prizes. Louis Pasteur, who lived from 1822 to 1895, is arguably the world’s best-known microbiologist. He is widely credited for ...

An Edinburgh surgeon was the first person to recognize and cure a bacterial infection, a British biologist is claiming 1. John Goodsir realized that microbes make people sick in 1842 - nearly 20 years ...

Can you spare a few minutes to reflect on three game-changing biology experiments? Up first, Louis Pasteur debunks spontaneous generation. Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist, best known ...