Germs were for the most part considered anathema and up to half of everyone I encountered was a germophobe. Microbes were compartmentalized as ‘bad news’ and little more.

Label-free identification of individual bacteria using Fourier transform light scattering. Optics Express, 2015; 23 (12): 15792 DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.015792 ...

The notion that germs are involved in chronic diseases has been in debate for over a century when the presence of bacteria in the blood was recognized as a contributor to pain and death. In the ...

A computer model the researchers developed helped them understand how the bacteria internally function to grow, adapt and infect. Under a microscope, V. cholerae appear curved and flat. The ...

The microscope of the future, the ultra-violet, uses waves invisible to mortal eye, and transmits them through fused quartz.

Bacteria and fungi have been producing antibiotics for many hundreds of millions of years. Relatively recently, humans figured out that they could co-opt some of these to control pathogenic bacteria.