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 ...

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 ...

EZ-Spread™ Plating Beads from AMSBIO (Oxford, UK) allow you to spread bacterial and yeast cells across the surface of an agar plate in just seconds. Eliminating the traditional need for glass rods and ...

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 ...

Agar is a polysaccharide-based hydrocolloid synthesized in the cell walls of red seaweed, known as agarophytes. 1 Owing to its unique gel-forming ability, agar has wide-ranging applications that ...

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 ...