The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate people about the important relationship we have with microbes. The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art ...

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 ...

An inoculating loop can be used to transfer bacteria. It is sterilised by heating it to red hot in a Bunsen flame, before and after use. To inoculate the agar, lift the lid of the Petri dish and tilt.

Researchers swabbed each piece of plastic and spread the samples on agar plates to grow and identify bacteria. “Plastics in wastewater treatment plants are colonised by microbial biofilms ...

"Phages are viruses that naturally predate bacteria," explains the study's first ... into different bacterial strains and grew them on agar plates," says Sam Fairburn, co-author on the study ...