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On a side street in the back end of Paris’s Latin Quarter, sandwiched between a boarding school and neighborhood post office, stands the building that once housed Louis Pasteur’s lab. Here, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the renowned chemist and microbiologist found a vaccine for rabies, developed the process that came to be known as pasteurization, and pondered a discovery that he suspected could have profound ramifications for the structure of life on Earth, if not the entire Universe.
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Dorminey, B. (2002). Signatures of Life. In: Distant Wanderers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5001-0_15
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