Scientists and others used bacteria grown on agar plates to create their artworks for the American Society for Microbiology’s annual Agar Art competition.

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 ...

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 ...

Tasha Sturm, who works at Cabrillo College, decided she'll remember her son's germs -- always -- so she grew his hand bacteria in a sterile plate. She said in her American Society for Microbiology ...

Bacteria in a Plate (IMAGE) Technical University of Denmark. Caption. A new study published in <i>Nature Communications</i> will help to predict antibiotic resistance evolution and thus guide ...