Creating a colony-forming unit commonly starts with adding around 15 ml of molten agar to around 1 ml of bacterial culture in ...

But when the students go home, Grosser gets out her agar plates and brightly-colored bacteria collection to make literature-based agar art. Posting on Instagram as @thebookishbacteriologist, Grosser ...

The selective ingredients are the bile salts and the dye, crystal violet which inhibit the growth of Gram-positive bacteria ... form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here).

Participants grew different microbes on agar to create varied patterns, often using the organisms’ natural pigments to enhance their designs. Where the microbes meet in the middle of the plate, “they ...

The sample was allowed to grow for 6 days at 30 °C at which time the agar was excised and transferred directly to a MALDI target plate followed by immediate deposition of Universal MALDI matrix ...

In addition to microbial screening, the system has automated numerous sample preparation and plate handling processes, such as transferring bacterial liquid culture and plating on agar.

Bacteria that have the enzyme tryptophanase ... form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here). MacConkey agar is commonly used to differentiate between the Enterobacteriaceae.

The purpose of this practical is to investigate the effect of antiseptics or antibiotics on bacterial growth using agar plates and measuring zones of inhibition. This allows the selected bacteria ...

The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate people about the important relationship we have with microbes. The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art ...

New Zealand wellness brand No Ugly is showing Kiwis that beauty starts on the inside by turning the science of gut health ...

The purpose of this practical is to investigate the effect of antiseptics or antibiotics on bacterial growth using agar plates and measuring zones of inhibition. This allows the selected bacteria ...