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

Reason – this allows the bacteria to spread out and to grow in individual colonies on the agar plate. A lawn of bacteria can be produced by using a sterile spreader to evenly spread the bacteria ...

Close the lid of the agar plate and place the pipette in disinfectant. Reason – this solution contains the bacteria that will grow on the agar. Reason – this allows a lawn of bacteria to be ...

Research paves the way for new rational treatment strategies of multidrug-resistant chronic infections. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

After filling in the outline with bacteria that express different pigments as they grow, she incubates them until the microbes pack the plate, revealing the bookish images. To mimic the background ...

Bacteria that have the enzyme tryptophanase ... Thus organisms capable of lactose fermentation such as Escherichia coli, form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here). MacConkey ...

Bacteria that have the enzyme tryptophanase ... Thus organisms capable of lactose fermentation such as Escherichia coli, form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here). MacConkey ...

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 ...