Thanks to scientists’ responsible and humane work with research animals, there are new advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury. These innovations relieve suffering and pain, and transform the lives of patients and their loved ones. Hope and a commitment to extend and improve lives sustain today’s scientists. Your personal support is also needed. Read the stories of how animal-based research is saving lives, share your own story with us, and learn other wa ...

Microbes and Man Instructed by Mark A. Schneegurt, Ph.D. mark.schneegurt@wichita.edu If you came to this page hoping to find the teaching materials associated with this course, you need to go elsewhere. Dr. Schneegurt no longer offers this course at Notre Dame. If you were depending on these materials for your course, visit this site: Biol103 at WSU.

Page 1/22 Domagk, Fleming, Waksman and the Third Man. What do these people have in common and who is the third man? The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded for discovery of three different antibiotics: To Gerhard Domagk for prontosil rubrum in 1939. To Alexander Fleming for the discovery of penicillin in 1945. To Selman Waksman for the discovery of streptomycin in 1952. Fleming is still famous. You may have heard of Waksman. Domagk is largely forgotten. Want to know more about the discovery of these antibiotics ? If you want to know what this music has to do with antibiotics, you'll have to read to the end of the tutorial! If you can't hear any music, your browser is not configured to play MIDI files. DISCLAIMER © Microbiology@Leicester 2004.

Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination Island 2 Edward Jenner Note the background view of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, where Jenner carried out his original vaccinations, with milkmaid and cow on show. Mezzotint by John Raphael Smith, from his pastel portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1800, reproduced from W. R. Le Fanu, A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner 1749-1823, London: Harvey and Blythe, 1951. Edward Jenner, M.D., F.R.S. An inquiry into the cause ...

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A Brief History of Microbiology Development of microscopy: 1590: Hans and Zacharias Janssen (Dutch lens grinders) mounted two lenses in a tube to produce the first compound microscope. 1660: Robert Hooke (1635-1703) 1676: Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) 1883: Carl Zeiss 1931: Ernst Ruska constructed the first electron microscope. For a detailed description of the history of light microscopy, click here. Spontaneous generation controversy: 1688: Francesco Redi (1626-1678). Redi ...

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Kary B. Mullis (born December 28, 1944) Once in a while in the world of science, there comes an idea or a tool so ingenious that it revolutionizes the way people ask questions. Polymerase chain reaction, better known as PCR, is one of these technologies. It has not only made a tremendous impact on the scientific community, but it has also affected many aspects of our everyday lives. Polymerase chain reaction is a technique that amplifies DNA, enabling scientists to make millions ...

Resources Menu | Categorical Index | Café | Library | Gallery | Lucidcafé Home | Revised: June 1, 2006 Louis Pasteur Chemist 1822 - 1895 Chance favors only the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, in the region of Jura, France. His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease," is one of the most important in med ...

COSMIC ANCESTRY | Quick Guide | Next | by Brig Klyce | All Rights Reserved Louis Pasteur Omne vivum ex vivo — William Harvey, c. 1630 (1) Omnis cellula e cellula — Rudolph Virchow, 1858 (2) Louis Pasteur The greatest biologist of the nineteenth century was Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). His work had both practical use and profound theoretical significance. On the practical side, what discovery in the history of mankind is more important than the germ theory of disease? As for theoretical sig ...

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) No portrait survives of Robert Hooke. His name is somewhat obscure today, due in part to the enmity of his famous, influential, and extremely vindictive colleague, Sir Isaac Newton. Yet Hooke was perhaps the single greatest experimental scientist of the seventeenth century. His interests knew no bounds, ranging from physics and astronomy, to chemistry, biology, and geology, to architecture and naval technology; he collaborated or corresponded with scientists as diver ...

Scotsmart Directory Top Scottish Sites Focus On Famous Scots: Sir Alexander Fleming Born1881, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, AyrshireDied1955 Alexander Fleming worked as clerk in London until 1901 when he began to study medicine. He proved to be a good researcher so joined research department of St Mary's Hospital, London in 1906. He was to spend his entire working life here. Horrified by his experiences in France in WW1 he swore to find medicines which would alleviate infection of wound ...

UCCAAUniversity of California Center for Animal Alternatives The Mouse in Science: Vaccines The Mouse in Sci The first scientific attempt to control an infectious disease by inoculation was done by Edward Jenner in the 1790s with cowpox. In the following century, Pasteur explored the world of vaccinology and developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax. By 1900 five vaccines, against smallpox, rabies, typhoid fever, cholera and the plague, were developed and be ...

Celebrating 50 Years of Electron Microscopy and Modern Cell Biology Journey Into the Cell "The key to every biological problem must finally be sought in the cell," wrote the great classical cell biologist, E.B. Wilson, in 1925. Yet at the time Wilson wrote, the world inside the cell was largely inaccessible. The primary instrument of investigation for classical cell biologists--the light microscope--was physically incapable of resolving a cell's fine interior details. Albert C ...

The Slow Death of Spontaneous Generation (1668-1859) Russell Levine and Chris Evers From the time of the ancient Romans, through the Middle Ages, and until the late nineteenth century, it was generally accepted that some life forms arose spontaneously from non-living matter. Such "spontaneous generation" appeared to occur primarily in decaying matter. For example, a seventeenth century recipe for the spontaneous production of mice required placing sweaty underwear and husks of whea ...

Vaccines bring 7 diseases under control Two hundred years after the discovery of vaccine by the English physician Edward Jenner, immunization can be credited with saving approximately 9 million lives a year worldwide. A further 16 million deaths a year could be prevented if effective vaccines were deployed against all potentially vaccine-preventable diseases. So far only one disease, smallpox, has been eradicated by vaccines, saving approximately 5 million lives annually. Polio co ...

Dr. Jonas Salk Upon receiving his M.D., Jonas Salk began his studies in immunization against influenza, trying to develop a vaccine against this disease. His attention was caught by the study of poliomyelitis, which led to the development of the now-famous Salk Vaccine against polio. Dr. Salk planned and developed an institute for biological studies, bringing together scientists and scholars from many fields of research who shared a common interest in science and a concern for the impl ...