EditorialStanford microbiology professor David Relman, in Stanford, Calif., on March 17, 2023, one of the scientists who called for an independent investigation into the origins of COVID-19. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialStanford microbiology professor David Relman, in Stanford, Calif., on March 17, 2023, one of the scientists who called for an independent investigation into the origins of COVID-19. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialNatalie Williams-Bouyer, the director of the division of clinical microbiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, on Nov. 24, 2020. (Go Nakamura/The New York Times)
EditorialNatalie Williams-Bouyer, the director of the division of clinical microbiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, on Nov. 24, 2020. (Go Nakamura/The New York Times)
EditorialAndrew Martinez, the microbiology supervisor at Alaska Native Medical Center, prepares a fusion testing machine for virus samples in Anchorage, Alaska on Oct. 20, 2020. (Ash Adams/The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by the Air Force Historical Research Agency, an early Air Force “Mars Jar,” tended to by Lt. John A. Kooistra, Jr. of the School of Aviation Medicine’s Department of Microbiology, in 1957. (Air Force Historical Research Agency via The New York Times)
EditorialLisa Miorin, an assistant professor of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, carries sterilized trays into a high-security lab to use in a coronavirus study, March 14, 2020. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialPASTEUR, Louis (Dole 1822-Villeneuve-l 'Etang, Marnes-la-Coquet, 1895). French biologist, creator of Microbiology. It was the first to discover that fermentation was caused by living organisms, microbes. Creator of aseptic technique.