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Topic: microbiology

Catering Buffet Trays (Getty Images/PaulGulea)

This is how a microbiologist eats

Primrose Freestone - The Conversation
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Newly-discovered organisms eat viruses

Troy Farah
Portrait of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization (Getty Images/mikroman6)

Louis Pasteur's work still saves lives

Rodney E. Rohde - The Conversation
Sun beams shinning underwater on the tropical coral reef (Getty Images/Tunatura)

Mysterious viruses lurk in our oceans

Matthew Rozsa
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Virus Spores | Computer Code (Getty Images)

How to hide an email in E. coli DNA

Matthew Rozsa
A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. (NASA/JP)

Move over, Mars: Venus is cool again

Matthew Rozsa
A studio shot of two glass vials with medicine and a single syringe ready for an injection or vaccination (Getty Images)

A "shield" to stop the coronavirus

Nicole Karlis
President Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Scientists: Trump bungled this badly

Matthew Rozsa
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The Ebola Virus and the Coronavirus looked at through a microscope (Getty Images)

Inside COVID-19's bizarre genetics

Nicole Karlis
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Deep sea octopus moms are suffocating

Rose Jones
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/LynnSeeden'>LynnSeeden</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Why your fridge can't stop food rot

Melanie Silvis
(Getty Images/Salon)

Why we must tackle superbugs

William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, Jim O’Neill
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Herpes genome hiding in fish DNA

Dan Samorodnitsky
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