Scientists who use bacteria in research grow them either in a broth or on a plate of the gel-like substance agar. They may be studying the microbes directly — for example, to identify the source ...

The BYU microbiology and molecular biology program held its semi-annual Agar Art competition on Oct. 14 where students produced paintings made of bacteria.

Here, a flowering plant develops from bacteria painted on the agar plate, including Serratia (red), Bacillus (white), and Nesterenkonia (yellow). Mehmet Berkmen, New England Biolabs; Maria Peñil ...

At the end of the competition, the agar plates are taken back to the MMBIO lab to allow the bacteria to grow. According to Black, they store the plates in incubators for a day or two and then the ...

The outcome is an agar plate having bacterial colonies cultured in specific different regions, according to a standard 96-well reference, from which individual clones can be chosen and cultured ...

Glass Petri dishes and agar gel close agar gel A jelly-like substance that is derived from a type of seaweed and used in the lab as a medium on which to grow bacteria and fungi. must be sterilised ...

Sturm, who works as a lab tech at Cabrillo College in California, created the evocative culture by pressing her son’s hand into an agar plate after he was playing outside. Agar is commonly used ...

Through a microscope, we could see tiny rod-shaped bacteria swimming around the agar plate, racing across the screen. It's impossible to avoid bacteria altogether, ...

Agar is still a standard way of growing microbes in a lab. One way to transfer bacteria to an agar plate is with a stick that leaves a pattern of microbes behind, as if they were drawn.