Bioscience Wonders

Inside a 25,000-square-foot laboratory on the Colorado State University campus, an army of tuberculosis researchers clad in respirators and white biosafety suits wages war on what some are calling the return of the “White Plague.” Sixty-five miles to the south, at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, 248 scientists are collaborating to turn the historic one-size-fits-all paradigm for treating that disease on its head. Meanwhile, in the glistening new $160 million home of CU-Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute, biologists and computer scientists are joining forces to map the inside of the human gut.

Infectious disease, cancer, and the human microbiome are just a…