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 ...

Fairburn explains that in the absence of an active anti-phage defence, viral infections inhibit bacterial growth and cause a ...

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 ...

This research aims to contribute to the advancement of direct alternative materials for petroleum-based asphalt binders. Highly concentrated mixtures of agar hydrogels (i.e., 10% agar) possess similar ...

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 ...

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

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has issued an urgent recall for packs of Isle of Mull Cheese's Hebridean Blue Cheese ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Bacteria had grown out in a yellowish smear coating the plates, but then holes appeared in the microbial film. The empty spaces looked like ...

This is a differential medium. It tests the ability of an organism to do several things: reduce sulfur, produce indole and swim through the agar (be motile). SIM is commonly used to differentiate ...