Art and science have collided in an exhibition featuring Petri dishes painted with cultures to create microbial masterpieces. The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Agar Art competition featured ...

A microbe-filled petri dish isn't usually where one would expect to find art, but it turns out that cell colonies can form some pretty compelling visuals. The honor of first place went to “Neurons,” a ...

Researcher Balaram Khamari “plants” live bacteria in a jelly-like substance called agar, to create agar art in intricate patterns. Talk about art in unexpected places. Balaram Khamari’s canvas is the ...

For laboratories involved in culture media preparation, sterile dispensing is essential for successful downstream applications and to meet quality requirements. Furthermore, as a growing need for cost ...

Rearchers of the Harvard Medical School built a 2 feet by 4 feet (61 x 122 cm) large petri-dish to visualize the evolution of bacteria. Their experiment induces mutations in E. coli bacteria by ...

'The specks remind me of stars in the galaxy,' says Tal Danino, admiring a dinner plate dotted with what appear to be celestial bodies. 'This really interesting pattern in the centre, that's ...

While your high school petri dishes may have contained little more than agar and some bacteria cultures, scientists from Ohio State University have cultured something quite different and rather ...