Word: pasteurization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mouse Teratocarconoma and Mouse Embryo: Cell Surface and Development--Francois Jacob of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, Science Center...
Dressler said yesterday he may use the money to sponsor an expedition to the French Alps to repeat a century-old but never-reconfirmed experiment by Louis Pasteur...
...Pasteur interpreted the experiment, which involved opening sealed, sterile flasks containing culture media under different atmospheric conditions, as a disproof of the then-accepted theory of spontaneous generation...
...wrong about Laetrile. History is filled with examples of medical shortsightedness. In the early 1 8th century, the Rev. Cot ton Mather, of all people, was accused by Boston doctors of in terfering with the "all-wise providence of God almighty" by rec ommending inoculation against smallpox. Louis Pasteur evoked the fury of medical savants with his germ theory of disease...
...been based largely on the assumption that any novel organism produced by this technique may well survive and spread. But this assumption ignores Darwin's great discovery: the dominating role of natural selection in determining what survive, multiplies, and evolves. While Darwin dealt only with the visible living world, Pasteur made essentially the same discovery for invisible organisms, though expressed in different terms: bacteria do not arise by spontaneous generation but are ubiquitous, and the kinds that grow out in any medium are the ones that are selected by that medium. An extension of these principles to infectious disease gave...