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Science!

Do you have some art in need of restoring? Maybe you can throw some bacteria at it.

As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in art restoration, her mother’s own area of expertise.

Bosch and her mother teamed up to make bacteria work for us.