"We cloned the 57 genes into different bacterial strains and grew them on agar plates," says Sam Fairburn, co-author on the study and an undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo who ...

A series of plates with splashes of watercolor, the images document the dilution of fecal samples to quantify intestinal ...

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 ...

Bacteria that have the enzyme tryptophanase ... form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here). MacConkey agar is commonly used to differentiate between the Enterobacteriaceae.

The purpose of this practical is to investigate the effect of antiseptics or antibiotics on bacterial growth using agar plates and measuring zones of inhibition. This allows the selected bacteria ...

But what if there was an even better way of killing bacteria and germs on our hands ... [Jay] sets up an experiment using agar plates. He inoculates half of the plates with swabs that he rubbed ...

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 ...

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 ...