Westwind resident is a lifelong teacher Jul 27, 2008
He eventually moved to Sacramento, where he taught geometry, trigonometry, algebra and a class of general math at Louis Pasteur Junior High. "I just enjoyed transferring information to young boys and girls who were learning. And I worked with them individually if they need(ed) special help. I would be with them after class, and give them all kind(s) of assistance. And I just loved the people that I taught.". (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
Do you believe in magic? Jul 18, 2008
Boston Latin School Auditorium, 78 Avenue Louis Pasteur. 617-517-5883. (Boston Globe)
Gene That Regulates And Blocks Ovulation Discovered Jul 18, 2008
The new study is a collaboration between the Universit; de Montr;al in Canada and the Institut de g;netique et biologie mol;culaire et cellulaire of the Universit; de Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. See also. (Science Daily)
Scientists isolate ovulation gene Jul 18, 2008
Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, Dr. Murphy and postdoctoral fellow Rajesha Duggavathi created a mouse model to study what role the Lrh1 gene might play in ovulation. Women usually ovulate around the 14th day of a 28-day menstrual cycle. (Globe and Mail)
GUT INSTINCT: THE SCIENCE OF EAT Jul 17, 2008
Compared to me, Schmidtler was a beaker-boiling Louis Pasteur. His Bunsen burner brilliance saved me from an F; perhaps my dreidel-spinning ways would help Schmidtler lose his -ler. (New York Press)
First Underwater Neutrino Telescope Has Been Constructed Jul 6, 2008
More than 150 researchers, engineers, and technicians in Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, and in the following French laboratories: Centre de physique des particules de Marseille (CNRS/Universit; de la M;diterran;e); CEA/Irfu (Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe, Saclay centre); Groupe de recherche en physique des hautes ;nergies (Universit; de Haute-Alsace); Institut pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (CNRS/Universit; Louis Pasteur);... (Science Daily)
UCLA researchers clarify function of glucose transport molecule Jul 4, 2008
Coauthors included Salem Faham, Akira Watanabe, Gabriel Mercado Besserer, Bruce Hirayama of the UCLA Department of Physiology; Duilio Cascio of the UCLA Institute of Genomics and Proteomics; and Alexandre Specht of Universit Louis Pasteur. . (EurekAlert!)
Medical Mavericks Jun 24, 2008
Starting with French chemist and national hero Louis Pasteur - a germaphobe who wiped his cutlery before eating at restaurants - and his fight to develop a vaccine for rabies, host Michael Mosley then takes us across the English channel to Almroth Edward Wright and his struggle to convince the British army to use his vaccine against typhoid and to the US and the race to find a cure for polio. For many of the early scientists, self-testing - with what Mosley describes with relish as a "witches'... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Looking back 40 years, proud and perplexed May 21, 2008
Each time he arrives, the faded frescoes and marble gaze of French luminaries such as Victor Hugo and Louis Pasteur take him back to May, 1968, when he and his fellow students spent a few weeks changing the world. "It was an extraordinary time," says a balding and bespectacled Mr. Bouyer. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Cause of Childhood-Onset Cardiac Hypertrophy May 2, 2008
256 NRB, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, or at cseidman{at}genetics. med. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Closing schools slated to be fixed Apr 13, 2008
Five other elementary schools - A.B. Hart, Louis Agassiz, Empire, Louis Pasteur and Whitney Young - are not scheduled for construction or renovation. Those buildings may close. (Cleveland.com)
Got Raw Milk? Mar 23, 2008
In the 1860s, French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur discovered that bacteria and other harmful organisms contaminating beer or wine could be killed off by heat. The widespread pasteurization of milk starting in the 1920s "was one of the major breakthroughs in public health," says Eric Decker, a professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. (Boston Globe)
Genetic research unveils common origins for distinct clinical diagnoses Mar 10, 2008
But what does this mean for clinicians and the diagnosis and treatment of these syndromes" Katsanis hopes that the growing body of molecular data will help move medicine away from symptom-defined syndromes, which can leave clinicians struggling with ambiguous diagnoses, to approaching disorders from a molecular standpoint. We now have the possibility of merging several rare disorders, he says. And their gross sum now turns out to be fairly common; hopefully this will now put them on the radar... (EurekAlert!)
Catholic Scientists Mar 9, 2008
Chemist and inventor of Pasteurisation Louis Pasteur was Catholic. Inventor of Penicillin Alexander Fleming was Catholic. (Suite101.com)
Orchestrating women's health Mar 8, 2008
There's also a free symposium, "Crisis, Creativity and Courage: Protecting Women's Rights, Promoting Women's Health" at Harvard Medical School from 2 to 5 p.m. (77 Avenue Louis Pasteur); registration is required (longwood ). The concert is at 8 p.m. $28, $15 students, seniors. (Boston Globe)
Health/Science Calendar Mar 3, 2008
From 5:30 to 7 p.m., in the school's Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur ... The symposium runs from 2 to 5 p.m., at the medical school's Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur. (Boston Globe)
Vaccine News You Need Feb 2, 2008
Louis Pasteur, a pioneer in vaccine science, wrote that "chance favors only the prepared." Vaccines are some of modern medicine's greatest tools for putting chance on your side, yet a recent CDC report found that only about 2 percent of American adults are adequately vaccinated. Vaccines provide either active or passive protection against disease. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Last line of defense Jan 22, 2008
Although French scientist Louis Pasteur discovered in 1862 that heat can kill germs, the United States didn't become seriously concerned about food-borne illnesses until 1903. That's when the U.S. Public Health Service required milk to be pasteurized after an outbreak of listeria killed hundreds of people in Chicago in the waning years of the 19th century. (Durango Herald)
Study: Monkeys 'pay' for sex by grooming Jan 5, 2008
Secondary Navigation. By GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 50 minutes ago. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
The Cambridge Club: Exercising Opportunity Jan 4, 2008
Scientist Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind." How have you prepared yourself to act on opportunities that emerge in 2008 and beyond. How observant are you. (RealtyTimes)
Sanofi Pasteur Enters Agreement With Crucell for Next-Generation Biologicals Against Rabies Jan 3, 2008
"Louis Pasteur's first human rabies immunization in 1885 was a founding milestone for modern vaccination and we are proud to build on his legacy with innovative treatments." Crucell has developed a combination of two rabies MAbs that has shown favorable results comparable to current immunoglobulin products in preclinical trials ... Rabies vaccination by Louis Pasteur was an important step in the history of vaccine when, in 1885, Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by a rabid dog, was... (PR Newswire)
Great words from great thinkers, inspired by wine Jan 2, 2008
- Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895, chemist and microbiologist. "Water separates people of the world; wine unites them.". (AZCentral -- Home)
Click for Full Story Dec 27, 2007
On This Date:In 1822, scientist Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France. In 1831, naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle. (KWTX.com, TX)
Allstate expands insurance offices in San Antonio Dec 22, 2007
The Bergholtz Allstate Insurance Agency is located at 7400 Louis Pasteur #211, also in Northwest San Antonio. The two offices will offer customers complete insurance and financial services. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
A lesson in diversity Dec 13, 2007
Longtime teachers and administrators say they can't remember when an L.A. Unified school superintendent visited the campus, formerly Louis Pasteur Junior High, near Fairfax Avenue and the 10 Freeway. Unless, that is, you count the time when, according to Assistant Principal Marion Wong, former Supt. (Los Angeles Times)
Making a malaria vaccine à la Louis Pasteur Dec 11, 2007
la Louis Pasteur - International Herald Tribune ... Sanaria Inc. (meaning "healthy air," a play on the Italian "mal'aria" or "bad air") is making a vaccine the old-fashioned way, more or less as Louis Pasteur did. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
The notion of 'mall, sweet mall' leaves a bitter taste Nov 30, 2007
Think Jonas Salk or Louis Pasteur as medical pioneers, Alan Shepard or John Glenn as space pioneers, or the faceless crowds that settled the American West. It's great that the DuGallys and their dog can afford a condo at the Natick mall. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Robert E. Lee’s life story told to Clionian Society Nov 25, 2007
Barbara Barton will present the program on Louis Pasteur. Comments. (Pontiac Daily Leader, IL)
Far East kicks US in education fight Nov 16, 2007
More than a century ago Louis Pasteur revealed the secret to invention and innovation when he said chance favours the prepared mind. The take away message from this report is that the United States is loosing the race to prepare the minds of the future generation, said report author Gary Phillips, a chief scientist at the wonderfully named American Institutes for Research, a social science non-profit (). (Nature News Service)
Religious exemptions from immunizations are rising in Iowa Oct 31, 2007
"The germ is nothing, the host is everything" -Louis Pasteur on his death bed acknowledging that the most important thing is the state of the immune system of the person, not the germs they are exposed to in determining if a person will get sick and how sick they will be. " Steph12 wrote on Oct 25, 2007 7:59 AM:" Big D - funny you should mention homeschooling. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Infotainment Oct 30, 2007
Louis Pasteur was a germophobe. The average married. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Spontaneous Generation Oct 30, 2007
Louis Pasteur Settles It (1800s). Pasteur, a French scientist who made great contributions to our understanding of microbiology and for whom the process of pasteurization is named, repeated experiments similar to those of Spallazani s and brought to light strong evidence that microbes arise from other microbes, not spontaneously. (Suite101.com)
the vaccine that could save millions Oct 22, 2007
Originally from Normandy, he holds a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Louis Pasteur, in France, and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Dr Garnier originally worked for Schering Plough, the American drugs group, before he joined SmithKline Beecham in 1990 and was made chief executive of the merged group in 2001. (Times Online)
GlaxoSmithKline Appoints Andrew Witty to Replace Garnier as CEO in May Oct 8, 2007
He was born in Le Mans, France, in 1947 and graduated from the University of Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg with a doctorate in pharmacology and a master's degree in pharmaceutical science. He earned an MBA at Stanford University in 1974, where he was a Fulbright scholar. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Grape Juice Heart-Healthy Alternative to Wine Oct 3, 2007
Dr. Valrie Schini-Kerth and a team of researchers of the Universit Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, France, found that Concord grape juice stimulated the production of nitric oxide in endothelial cells, providing a vasorelaxation effect. It is known that nitric oxide is important in the bodys natural system for maintaining healthy, flexible blood vessels and helps support healthy blood pressure. (Newsmax)
Pump iron and jog to manage Type 2 diabetes Sep 22, 2007
The surgical team, led by Jacques Marescaux at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, made an incision inside the woman's vagina. Surgical instruments, plus a tiny camera at the end of a flexible cable, were then inserted through the opening. (Globe and Mail)
Surgery Without Scars? Sep 19, 2007
Jacques Marescaux, M.D., and colleagues at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, appear to have been the first to perform NOTES surgery without backup from the laparoscopic instruments used for conventional minimally invasive surgery. "With its invisible mending and tremendous potential for improving patient care and well-being, NOTES might represent the next greatest surgical evolution," Marescaux and colleagues suggest. (CBS News)
Surgeons remove gallbladder through vagina Sep 18, 2007
Patients, both male and female, independent of age and body shape, dislike scars, not only for cosmetic reasons but because scars indicate they have undergone treatment because of illness, wrote Dr. Jacques Marescaux of University Louis Pasteur, in Strasbourg, who reported on the procedure in the journal Archives of Surgery. The surgeons cut an incision inside the womans vagina and utilized laparoscopic techniques employing a tiny instruments and a video camera to remove her gallbladder, a... (MSNBC -- Health)
Man seeks his own way, but God has last word Aug 30, 2007
It has been proved by Louis Pasteur and other scientist that life comes only from life and intelligence comes only from intelligence. Some scientists use the term create very loosely. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Body clock might stop during hibernation Aug 21, 2007
Biologists Florent Revel and Paul P;vet of Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, investigated hibernation's effect on the brain in European hamsters, which normally stay burrowed in their nests between December and March, rarely venturing above ground. During these months they follow a regular schedule: three to four days of hibernation followed by two to three days of activity. (Nature News Service)
Drinking water systems much improved, but still challenging Aug 20, 2007
The second story, which recounts the race to identify cholera's cause between the celebrated, free-thinking French chemist Louis Pasteur and the detail-obsessed German microbiologist Robert Koch, is equally compelling, if at times a bit overdramatically rendered: "Like two seasoned gunfighters, they (Koch and Pasteur) would meet in the streets of Alexandria with test tubes blazing until only one man was standing," Morris writes in describing the scientists' showdown during an outbreak in Egypt.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Breast Cancer: Unlocking Mechanisms That Silence Estrogen Receptor Gene Alpha Aug 19, 2007
Giordano and Macaluso were joined in this study by research fellow Micaela Montanari and doctoral students Paul Bart Noto and Valter Gregorio from the Sbarro Institute, and Professor Christian Bronner from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Universit; Louis Pasteur in France. The study was coordinated by Giordano and carried out at Temple s Sbarro Institute and the Department of Human Pathology and Oncology at the University of Siena in Italy. (Science Daily)
Families celebrate summer grads Aug 14, 2007
Borrowing from French chemist Louis Pasteur, remember that chance favors the prepared mind. "Keep company with those who will make you better," Hinshaw said. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
This is cheese country Aug 10, 2007
It's where Louis Pasteur, inventor of the rabies vaccine, was raised and did a number of his experiments. You can visit his house, where rooms, including his laboratory, are furnished as they were at the time of his death in 1895 (Maison Pasteur, 83 rue Courcelles, Arbois, ; Web site in French). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Garlic and Health Jul 22, 2007
For example, in recent historical times, Louis Pasteur observed that garlic exhibited certain anti-bacterial properties; during World War Two it was known as Russian penicillin by the Soviet army who used it as an antiseptic to apply to open wounds; and in the 1950s Dr Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa, used garlic to treat cholera, typhus and amoebic dysentery. Allicin. (Suite101.com)
A Brain Chemical That Battles Despair Jul 21, 2007
The researchers include Olivier Berton, Herbert E. Covington 3rd, Nadia M. Tsankova, Tiffany L. Carle, Paula Ulery, Akshay Bhonsle, Vaishnav Krishnan, Shari Birnbaum, and Eric J. Nestler of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; Michel Barrot of European Neuroscience Institute of Strasbourg and Unit Mixte de Recherche 7519, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Universit Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg; Karl Ebner, Georg M. Singewald, and Nicolas Singewald of University of... (Science Daily)
McPherson native named Fulbright scholar Jul 10, 2007
Schultheiss is going to the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France where he will conduct post-doctoral research at the university's Institute de Science et d'Ingenierie Supramoleculaires. Founded in 2000, the institute is co-directed by Jean-Marie Lehn, who won a Nobel Prize in 1987 for his work in supramolecular chemistry. (McPherson Sentinel, KS)
Conventional Wisdom?: Jun 9, 2007
Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister presented theirs, redefining the worlds of bacteriology and infection. Their results, and those of other era brand names, were sometimes met with derision, at other times with acceptance. (Slate)
CNW Group Daybook for Tuesday, April 24, 2007 ALL TIMES ARE LOCAL Apr 24, 2007
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Franche-Compte Cuisine Apr 22, 2007
It s the birthplace of Louis Pasteur and is surrounded by vineyards, without doubt the gastronomic capital of the region. The area boasts a number a number of grape varieties, including Poulsard, Chardonnay, Savagnin and Pinot. (Suite101.com)
The real dope on '420' Apr 20, 2007
used to meet every day after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the school s Louis Pasteur statue. Many cannabis (marijuana) users continue to observe 4:20 as a time to smoke communally, noted Wikipedia. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Binge eaters: Pythons down bones and all Apr 5, 2007
Juvenile pythons normally eat every week, while adults can have a meal every month and can even stop feeding for several months under certain circumstances, said study co-author Jean-Herv Lignot of Louis Pasteur University in France. But what good could the bones be. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Making No Bones About It: Digestion In Burmese Pythons Apr 5, 2007
Dr Jean-Herv; Lignot (Louis Pasteur University) and Dr Robert K. Pope (Indiana University South Bend) will talk about the implications this has on the way these snakes digest food on Saturday 31st March at the Society for Experimental Biology's Annual Meeting in Glasgow. Burmese python. (Science Daily)
Questioning Evolution Apr 4, 2007
It is interesting that it was creationists that laid the groundwork for modern science today: Antiseptic surgery, Joseph Wister; bacteriology, Louis Pasteur; calculus, Isaac Newton; celestial mechanics, Johannes Kepler; chemistry, Robert Boyle; comparative anatomy, George Cuvier; computer science, Charles Babbage. All believed in a creator God that made the possibility of science even possible because there was order and design that could be discovered and built upon. (Olean Times Herald, NY)
HEALTH: Can Garlic Cure What Ails You? Apr 4, 2007
Doctors used it topically on the battlefields of both World Wars to fight gangrene after famed scientist Louis Pasteur noted that garlic seemed to have antibacterial properties. Working In The Real World. (Click2Houston, TX)
• Letters to the editor, March 11, 2007 Mar 14, 2007
All the real scientists, until the last few decades, reasoned that science was to understand God (Designer-Creator) and believed their work was discovering God in the universe - Nicolaus Coperinicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo, Rene' Descartes, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, William Thomson Kelvin, George Gabriel Planck, Wolfgang Pauli and Albert Einstein. Atheists absurdly try to claim Albert Einstein is one of their own because he... (Racine Journal Times, WI)
A key to male fertility Mar 2, 2007
A team at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC, CNRS / Inserm / Universit Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg)), in collaboration with researchers at the University of Dallas and the University of Louvain, has just identified a key regulator of male fertility, the SHP protein, bringing to light the major role it plays in controlling the synthesis of testosterone and in differentiation of germ cells in mouse testes. This work, published in the journal Genes opment,... (EurekAlert!)
Deafness and Pili Torti Caused by Mitochondrial Mutation Feb 22, 2007
Address reprint requests to Dr. C.E. Seidman at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Room 256 NRB, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, or at cseidman{at}genetics. med. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Ideagora, a Marketplace for Minds Feb 15, 2007
As the late-19th century chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur famously said, chance favors the prepared mind. The same could be said of innovation. (BusinessWeek)
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I am Louis Pasteur, Jonas Salk, and Dr. Christian Barnard, who performed the first human heart transplant in 1967; but I am also Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who performed the first successful operation on the human heart, and Dr. Charles Drew, who developed a process to preserve blood plasma and established the first blood bank in 1941. I am Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Ohio State, SMU, UCLA and USC; but I am also Tuskegee, Howard, Morehouse, Tennessee State, Grambling, Prairie View, Paul Quinn, and... (Kansas City Kansan, KS)
Professor Barry Marshall: Hit and Myth Feb 8, 2007
February 07, 2007 12:00am. The experts had long said ulcers were caused by stress. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Another revolutionHow 18th century French doctors changed medicine Feb 5, 2007
Later in the 19th century investigators, such as Louis Pasteur established laboratories to investigate the minute causes of infectious disease: the germs. The result was new and reliable forms of diagnosis, a far better understanding of the workings of the human body and its weaknesses, and cures for diseases as well as ways - especially with vaccines - of protecting people from illnesses in the first place. (BBC News -- Health)
Grape juice might be good for the heart Feb 1, 2007
Researchers at the Universite Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg were examining the effect on the heart of Concord grape juice. Grape juice can have a similar effect (against heart disease) as red wine but without the alcohol. (MSNBC -- Health)
GUEST VIEW: Fortune favors the prepared mind Jan 28, 2007
As Louis Pasteur said, Fortune favors the prepared mind. Junker is the president of the Cotter Schools. (Winona Daily News, MN)
The dish on Petri Jan 26, 2007
But while Koch is highly esteemed among modern-day scientists the putative father of germ theory, co-founder of modern bacteriology with Louis Pasteur his name isn't broadly recalled. That distinction belongs to a one-time lab assistant, a fellow named Julius Petri, who invented a dish. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
