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)
EditorialApril Abbott, director of microbiology at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind., a mother of three who keeps a bed in her office for when her duties keep her overnight. (Kaiti Sullivan/The New York Times)
EditorialApril Abbott, director of microbiology at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind., a mother of three who keeps a bed in her office for when her duties keep her overnight. (Kaiti Sullivan/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)
EditorialAriangela Kozik, Ph.D., a research fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School and co-founder of the group, Black in Microbiology, at the university in Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 25, 2020. (Cydni Elledge/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)