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Crystal-Clear Penicillin, 1945
Crystal-Clear Penicillin, 1945
Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin.
Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin.
Foundations, microbiology
Identifying a Killer, 1895
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A contaminated ham put bacteriologist Émile Pierre-Marie van Ermengem on the path to discovering the microbe that produces botulinum toxin.
First Micrographs of Myxobacteria Forming Fruiting Bodies
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By ditching traditional agar-based media, two biochemists captured iconic images of Myxococcus in 1982.
Cave Dwellers, 1938
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Renowned sleep researcher Nathaniel Kleitman and a colleague spent a month underground to test the body’s natural rhythms.
A Cellar’s Cellular Treasure, 1992
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A spring cleaning led to the rediscovery of Theodor Boveri’s microscope slides, presumed lost during World War II.