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

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

3. Streak plate – the original culture is directly diluted across an agar surface using an inoculating loop. This is a simple & rapid method. All of these methods dilute or “thin out” a heavy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.