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Ben Ketchum is a microbiologist and he's just returned from Egypt, where he learned all about the surprising brewer's yeast. Now he's being offered a chance to work on another project he knows little about: cholera. Join him as he learns about cholera, mentors students in his research laboratory, discovers the relationship between water-born diseases & cystic fibrosis, searches for his tenure, finds out about the peculiar chemistry of the water molecule, how Egyptians mummified their dead using salt, this and a lot more. This fictional novella is the second part of a four-part book called "...

"Secret Life of the Brewer's Yeast" is told by Benjamin Ketchum, a microbiologist who lives in Montana and has just one year left to gain his tenure. Ben also recently lost his big anthrax grant so now he's forced to turn to the brewer's yeast, a microbe he knows virtually nothing about, just to keep his lab up & running. On a whim, the bacteriologist buys a ticket to Egypt - birthplace of perhaps the world's oldest civilization - where he learns all he can about the yeast's role in building the pyramids, as well as the history of brewing, baking, and winemaking. Next, Ben travels to a more...

Ben Ketchum is an assistant professor at a small college in Montana with just one year left to secure his tenure or he’s going to be out of a job, this at a time when there are already alarming cutbacks going on in science due to Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. And as if to complicate his life further, the all important anthrax grant Ben was counting on didn’t come through so now he’s forced to begin a new project, this one involving a different type of microbe than what he’s used to: the brewer’s yeast. To learn all he can about the yeast, Ben takes two weeks off and travels ...

Exoskeletons is really two stories within a larger one. The narrator is a graduate student navigating the halls of academia while at the same time having to accept that his twin brother is going blind due to a devastating genetic disease. At the same time it is also a science lesson about how vision works. The author is a scientist with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry.

A year in the life of microbiology professor Ben Ketchum, who is pursuing his tenure while mentoring students in the lab on various projects. In part one, after losing his anthrax grant, Ben takes on a new project involving the yeast, then travels to Egypt and Germany so he can learn all the ways this tiny fungus has influenced human history and biology over the past 3,000 years. In part two, Ben discusses cholera and the strange chemistry of the water molecule while trying to come up with a new side project to help another professor in his department out of a jam. In part three, things go ...

15 short stories and 1 novella.