There are about a trillion species of microbes on Earth, but usually we only pay attention when one of them, E. coli for example, has led to an outbreak of disease. However, besides a few ...

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 ...

From Louis Pasteur’s first liquid medium to today’s specialized agar plates, microbiologists have refined culture media to isolate and identify microbes with precision. Selective and differential ...

Swirls of bacteria form on an agar plate. In this webinar, Stefan Radtke will discuss the development of new high-throughput single-cell readouts for precise and comprehensive tracking of gene editing ...

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 ...

Megan Biesinger paints lungs covered in flowers on her agar plate for the art competition. She uses a drawing on paper towels underneath the plate to trace the image in translucent bacteria paint.