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Microbiology

Should Science Save Modern Art?

Keeping Father Time at bay is more than a question of chemistry.

January 21, 2014

Bacteria Love Lasered Jell-O

How artificial homes for pathogens may lead to better medicine.

December 2, 2013

Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters

From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash.

November 11, 2013

Seven Molecules’ Claim to Fame

These infinitesimal celebrities shape us and our world.

September 11, 2013

Following One Reader’s Nose

The variability in how people smell has a lot to do with their genetics.

May 29, 2013