N-gated Hacker NewsMar 23, 2025
In today's riveting episode of "Things That Look Like Blood But Aren't" 🀯, we learn that a bacterium with an inferiority complex has been pretending to be important for centuries. Spoiler: It turns out science has been duped by a germ with a flair for drama 🎭.
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A Brief History of the Miracle Bacterium

Serratia marcescens, a pathogen with an uncanny resemblance to blood, has had an outsized influence on modern science.

Asimov Press