Guardians of the Microbial Galaxy:Lifestyle collections of microbes perform an unheralded but vital job in science
In 1986, Yiu-Kwok Chan from Agriculture Canada determined a whole new bacterial species Following common protocol, he deposited it during the American Variety Lifestyle Collection (ATCC), a repository wherever researchers store novel microbial strains. It sat there for many years until finally 2020 when it was recognized by Roland Wilhelm, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell … Read more