Timelapse: A colony of mold in a petri dish on a white background. Production of penicillin or bacterial virus. Macro view of mycelium, spores in the laboratory. Mold green, blue and red microbiology ...

There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes, and then there is MEGA, an enormous, 2-foot-by-4-foot slab of black agar infused with a gradient of antibacterial drugs. Researchers built ...

The proto-eyes are what really disturbed me. For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature ...

It is therefore important that any petri dish or agar used is sterilised before use, and that aseptic techniques are used to inoculate the plates. An inoculating loop can be used to transfer bacteria.