Posting on Instagram as @thebookishbacteriologist, Grosser displays petri dishes that recreate the covers of her latest reads. She combines each image with a book review and a microbiology fact—or, ...

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BUFFALO, N. Y. – Numerous scientific studies have concluded that two common bacteria that cause ear infections, strep throat and more serious infections cannot live for long outside the human body. So ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Nov. 24, 2010) --The bacterial cell is often thought of as a "bag of enzymes"—a single compartment with limited internal structure, a primitive cell cycle, and relatively ...