Pasteur went on to argue that this same bacteria could cause disease. To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s heels… Oh ja!

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. Joseph Lister was able to make a much more ...

Everyone harbors disease germs, yet not everyone is sick. This is ascribed to "resistance," suggesting that germs are less important in disease than other factors affecting the condition of the host ...

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It is curious that the man who, in a brief seven years, had made such significant contributions to immunology and to the theory of disease immunopathogenesis, should have so completely left the field.

Testing associations between genotype and phenotype is central to many genetic studies of inherited traits and disease. Historically, Mendel's laws and Morgan's chromosome theory of inheritance ...

The earliest observations on population patterns of disease and how they might inform medical practice probably occurred during the 17th century, and they continue to the present day, with ...