Dairy and meat are two common sources of foodborne illness in the U.S. Because of this, producers use methods to test food ...

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

A plate containing E. coli shows a purple pigment in response to levels of zinc. The bacterium could be used to detect nutritional deficiencies in resource-limited areas of the world. Purple would ...

Harvard researchers have found that M. morganii may contribute to depression by producing an inflammatory molecule.

This new technology can detect eight different pathogenic and spoilage bacteria in milk in just two hours with more than 98% ...

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 ...

Some species can replicate themselves in as little as twenty minutes. We can grow bacteria in an incubator on plates of agar jelly with time, nutrients, and an optimum temperature. These girls at ...

EZ-Spread™ Plating Beads from AMSBIO 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 potentially ...