Microbiology has undergone radical changes over the past few decades, ushering in an exciting new era in science. In The New Microbiology , Pascale Cossart tells a splendid story about the revolution in microbiology, especially in bacteriology. This story has wide-ranging implications for human health and medicine, agriculture, environmental science, and our understanding of evolution. The revolution results from the powerful tools of molecular and cellular biology, genomics, and...