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 ...

The current method of agar plating takes several days to identify what antibiotics would treat the infection best—which is too long for a patient to wait. This means we have to start treating patients ...

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.

Madison, Wis.-based Novagen's ColiRoller™ plating beads replace the "hockey stick" method of bacterial plating. Bacteria are commonly spread on agar plates with a bent glass rod that must be immersed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of us have heard horror stories involving ghosts, monsters, or pulling an all-nighter before your thesis defense. But picture this: you’re running a simple yeast-plating experiment in your lab, ...