EditorialSara Wigginton, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center, works with samples of water and nitrate at the center in Sandwich, Mass., Dec. 5, 2022. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)
EditorialA panel discussion before to the performance of “The Mold That Changed the World” with, from left: composer and songwriter Robin Hiley; Sarah Despres of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Bethany Brookshire, a science writer; Dr. Rick Bright; and writer Diane Shader Smith, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, Oct. 20, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy/The New York Times)
EditorialJohn Dennehy, a virologist, and Monica Trujillo, a microbiologist, look over the results after wastewater samples are tested for the presence of coronavirus in New York on July 30, 2022. (Jonah Markowitz/The New York Times)
EditorialEmmanuelle Charpentier, a French microbiologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2020 with Jennifer Doudna, in New York, May 17, 2016. (Kasten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialSuresh Kuchipudi, a veterinary microbiologist at Penn State University, with Cashew, a young white-tailed deer in the university’s deer research center in State College, Pa., on Feb. 2, 2022. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)
EditorialMonica Trujillo, a microbiologist at Queensborough Community College in New York, filters bacteria from a wastewater sample containing traces of coronavirus on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialAnders Rhod Larsen, a microbiologist at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, works with samples of MRSA bacteria, in Denmark, Dec. 12, 2018. (Ciril Jazbec/The New York Times)
EditorialRuth Willig, a 98-year-old retired microbiologist and mother of four, at her home in Brooklyn on Dec. 10, 2015. (Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times)
EditorialAnders Rhod Larsen, a microbiologist at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, works with samples of MRSA bacteria, in Denmark, Dec. 12, 2018. (Ciril Jazbec/The New York Times)
EditorialMark Finazzo, a former beer brewer who lost his job during the shutdown, at Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio., on Dec. 29, 2021. (Rich-Joseph Facun/The New York Times)
EditorialCristina Dorador, a microbiologist and member of the Constitutional Convention, at a market in Antofagasta, Chile, Dec. 17, 2021. (Marcos ZegersThe New York Times)
EditorialMicrobiologist Johana Gómez photographs a newly donated brain before it is dissected and preserved at the brain bank, University of Antioquia, in Medellín, Colombia, Dec. 5, 2020. (Federico Rios Escobar/The New York Times)
EditorialAlexander Clare, a microbiologist, puts samples into a centrifuge to test wastewater for viral components at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn on Oct. 6, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)