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Media gallery

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Each image displays any associated caption and credit and is linked to the high-resolution version.

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Images

A blue gloved hand holding a petri dish showing bacterial growth, the background is black with a network of green cells

Side view of generational group of women and child.

Small spheres and oblong shapes, all similar in size, distributed across irregular matter.

Videos