Kelp is a popular seaweed choice in East African vegan cuisine. It's prized for its umami flavor—a savory, almost meaty taste ...

A sample of a microbe collected on Penn State’s University Park campus grows on an agar plate. Microbes are the foundation of our agricultural, environmental and human ecosystems, and they flow ...

Noack and his engineers have therefore been turning to robotics and automation to speed up the process of growing ...

When students started struggling to plate the yeasts ... But when Protacio and her team tested different lots of agar, they noticed that cells grew as expected on some lots but didn’t grow ...

This important work advances our understanding of DNA methylation and its consequences for susceptibility to DNA damage. This work presents evidence that DNA methylation can accentuate the genomic ...

“Plastics in wastewater treatment plants are colonised by microbial biofilms, or “plastispheres,” which can harbour pathogens, including Listeria, E. coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Acinetobacter spp ...

Eliminating sources of contamination - For consistent Agar plate quality, a clean environment is essential. The surface of the filling chamber is manufactured of a single piece of resistant PE ...

Because it takes two days for the color to appear on the agar plates, the participants had to be very aware of where they were painting each color on the dishes. Unfortunately, after two days ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even possible ...

This important study identifies the "H-state" as a potential conformational marker distinguishing amyloidogenic from non-amyloidogenic light chains, addressing a critical problem in protein misfolding ...

3 Microbiologists still use the eponymous Petri plates today to grow and store bacterial and fungal ... For example, scientists developed eosin-methylene blue (EMB) agar medium, which selectively ...