Microorganisms are both useful to man and destructive. Charles R. Scott is transferring such organism on a platinum wire loop, which he is sterilizing in the flame. He hopes in his investigations to control their destructiveness, and better yet put them to work for us.
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Microorganisms are both useful to man and destructive. Charles R. Scott is transferring such organism on a platinum wire loop, which he is sterilizing in the flame. He hopes in his investigations to control their destructiveness, and better yet put them to work for us.

[ca. March 1956]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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