Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to error, repeat the experiment, and hope for ...

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 ...

Lab M has said it is important to listen and respond to industry changes as it launched its MMGA pre-poured plate. The Pinnacle MMGA (ISO), Mineral Modified Glutamate Agar, pre-poured media plate is ...

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 ...

IN previous publications 1–4 from this laboratory, the use of the agar-plate method for the detection of enzymes has been described. This technique has now been adapted to the location of enzymes on ...