There are about a trillion species of microbes on Earth, but usually we only pay attention when one of them, E. coli for example, has led to an outbreak of disease. However, besides a few ...

Agar dilution and broth dilution are the most commonly used techniques to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial agents, including antibiotics and other substances that ...

Scientists mix microorganisms with agar, a jelly-like substance from seaweed, to create amazing illustrations in petri dishes Meenakshi J Balaram Khamari's “Microbial Peacock” won second place in the ...

Finding Pneumo, by Linh Ngo of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (2nd place) No matter how flamboyant your shower curtain mold is, it couldn't have competed with the fungus that won this year's Agar ...

Determination of hemolysis type is a key classification system in medical diagnostics and microbiology, and is especially useful in classifying streptococcal species. Serious infection diseases such ...

Every year, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) invites people to submit “agar art” - an image created by growing differently coloured microorganisms on a plate of agar. This year, they also ...

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 to ...