The 'paint' tubes of bacteria sit on a table at the Agar Art Competition. Participants had six color options to choose from to create their art pieces. (Bryan Barba Salazar) The Department of ...

Agar dilution and broth dilution are the most commonly used techniques to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial agents, including antibiotics and other substances that ...

Determination of hemolysis type is a key classification system in medical diagnostics and microbiology, and is especially useful in classifying streptococcal species. Serious infection diseases such ...

It’s called agar art and the Baltimore Underground Science Space has a series of workshops coming up. Art and science in one dish! Agar art. Leave it to scientists to make something beautiful out of a ...

The BYU Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology hosted its annual agar art competition on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Robert Black, the lab administrator for the Microbiology and Molecular Biology ...

Every year, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) invites people to submit “agar art” - an image created by growing differently coloured microorganisms on a plate of agar. This year, they also ...

Scientists mix microorganisms with agar, a jelly-like substance from seaweed, to create amazing illustrations in petri dishes Meenakshi J Balaram Khamari's “Microbial Peacock” won second place in the ...

This type of medium is both selective and differential. The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the ...

Single-cell microscopy is a powerful tool for studying gene functions using strain libraries, but it suffers from throughput limitations. Here we describe the Strain Library Imaging Protocol (SLIP), ...

The purpose of this practical is to investigate the effect of antiseptics, antibiotics or plant extracts on microbial cultures Reason – this provides the selected bacterium with all the nutrients ...