The history of biology is fundamentally divided into two eras: the era of the visible and the era of the invisible. For millennia, humanity’s understanding of life, disease, and decay was bound to what the naked eye could perceive. The advent of microbiology—the study of organisms too small to be seen without magnification—shattered these sensory…
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