Over two days in June, Emily Aguilar-Pine drove 2,500 kilometres from Bozeman, Montana, to Austin, Texas, with one of microbiology’s most coveted organisms in the back of her mother’s SUV. Inside some protective packaging, labelled ‘hopes and dreams’, was a small bottle containing about 30 millilitres of what looked like clear liquid, but that in
The Bunsen burner’s future in modern microbiology labs is flickering, some scientists say. Credit: Alfonso Fabio Iozzino/Alamy The Bunsen burner, a workhorse of biology and chemistry labs around the world for decades, might have been getting more credit than it deserves. Many scientists have long relied on Bunsen burners to decontaminate airspace and surfaces in
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