until he finally found that a gelatinous substance called agar solidified the broth media. Julius Richard Petri designed a circular “culture box” for solid culture media in 1887, which helped ...

Culture Media: Agar is a common culture media that is used to grow microbes. The gelling nature of the material creates a hard surface for bacterial and fungal colonies to grow on. Electrophoresis: ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jul., 1927), pp. 1-8 (8 pages) A new agar-dye differential medium for the identification of the members of the ...