Frustrated by unfulfilled big dreams of high adventure, Robert Koch, a German physician, was destined for smallness, as a pioneer of modern microbiology.

Jan 20, 2009 - Tami Port

German medical physician who developed methods for obtaining bacteria pure cultures and laid Koch's Postulates identifying bacilli that cause diseases.

Oct 1, 2010 - Tel Asiado

Koch merged medicine with concepts of infectious diseases. Disciplined thinking and lab verifications continue to this day throughout the practice of clinical medicine.

Mar 15, 2009 - Donald Reinhardt

The work of both Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch established conclusively that microorganisms are the cause of infectious diseases.

Apr 22, 2012 - Zoe Bianchi

They are almost everywhere, in the air, soil and water. They are on and inside the bodies of living things. They can help, and they can harm. They are the microbes.

Mar 13, 2009 - Donald Reinhardt

In the late 1800s, German physician Robert Koch formulated the series of steps required to prove the cause of any infectious disease.

May 29, 2011 - Tami Port

Agar agar is a gelatinous substance derived from seaweeds. It has wide traditional culinary uses but has become an important part of the bacteriology lab as well.

Dec 15, 2009 - Jitendra Rathod

Germ Theory is the concept that microorganisms can cause disease, and this theory is the foundation of modern medicine. Here is a summary of some key discoveries.

Oct 29, 2007 - Tami Port

Prevention and control of surgical infectious diseases with antiseptics is a direct result of Dr. Joseph Lister seeing the importance of killing microbes with chemicals.

Mar 16, 2009 - Donald Reinhardt

Germ Theory is the concept that microorganisms can cause disease, and this theory is the foundation of modern medicine. Here is a summary of some key discoveries.

Oct 29, 2007 - Tami Port

Animals survive surrounded, inside and outside, by hordes of primitive microbes. How this is done is a mystery scientists sought to know and discover.

Mar 21, 2009 - Donald Reinhardt

Biography of scientist Louis Pasteur who pioneered the theory that germs cause disease, known for Pasteur Effect.

Nov 2, 2008 - Tel Asiado

A new self-test for HPV, the greatest cause of cervical cancer, enables women to test themselves easily, at home. Better diagnosis, less cervical cancer.

Oct 21, 2011 - Gabi Samuel

Vibrio cholerae is an aquatic bacterium that can infect susceptible humans and cause pandemics of mild to severe diarrhea and even death of those made ill.

Nov 22, 2010 - Donald Reinhardt