Guardians from the Microbial Galaxy:Society collections of microorganisms participate in an unheralded but very important function in science
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In 1986, Yiu-Kwok Chan from Agriculture Canada identified a whole new bacterial speciesFollowing ordinary protocol, he deposited it on the American Kind Tradition Selection (ATCC), a repository whereby researchers retail outlet novel microbial strains. It sat there for decades till 2020 when it was recognized by Roland Wilhelm, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University, for […]