Medical testing laboratories are an essential link in the efficient management of infectious diseases by identification pathogens involved. However, arrangements for their operation may appear more difficult times health crises and raise multiple issues that compromise usual level quality assurance biological analyses response to needs. The smooth running control laboratory activities a crisis ...

This controversial statement was the starting point for a study of the authenticity of what was potentially one of the most important groups of material in the Wellcome Collections now at the Science Museum. Yet the issue of authenticity seemed insignificant when examined in the context of the rationale behind this collection. The research for this initial study generated a large number of ques...

More than 125 years after its foundation (*), the Pasteur Institute is still one of the world’s largest, best known and most powerful biomedical research institutions. The original motherhouse was founded by Louis Pasteur in 1888 thanks to the funds and facilities generously provided by the Paris municipality and the French state and also to the donations of voluntary contributors from France a...

Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva (1928-2014) graduated from the University of São Paulo Medical School in 1953 and shortly thereafter joined the Department of Parasitology, then chaired by Professor Samuel Pessoa, a leading Brazilian parasitologist. Samuel Pessoa and Luiz Hildebrando both shared a deep commitment to social problems. They considered it their duty to direct their scientific rese...