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“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

Microbial ecosystems—for example, in seawater, the soil or in the human gut—are astonishingly diverse, but researchers often ...

Plant Biology majors spend time in the lab and in the field ... barcoding medicinal plants in Pakistan, or unlocking the secrets of cell walls. They help set up community gardens and preserve old ...

Scientists led by Karla Satchell, Ph.D., the Anne Stewart Youmans Professor of Microbiology at Northwestern University, have ...