Creating a Bacteria Painting Is an Elegant But Dangerous Art

Photo caption: Sterilizing paint brushes and destroying the living paintings help prevent outbreaks to the general public. Photo credit: David Westenberg. Article by Asia London Palomba. Atlas Obscura – May 14, 2024. ASM Agar Art Contest: Overview.

On an early February morning in 2024 at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, David Westenberg dons safety goggles and latex gloves. The bespectacled microbiologist and professor of biological sciences for the last 27 years gently removes a series of test tubes containing strains of Escherichia coli from a crisp freezer set to […]

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