"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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 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 ...