Here’s What Happens When You Culture the Bacteria on an Eight-Year-Old’s Hand ... created the evocative culture by pressing her son’s hand into an agar plate after he was playing outside.

Julius Richard Petri designed a circular “culture box” for solid culture media in 1887, which helped scientists isolate bacterial colonies with reduced contamination. 3 Microbiologists still use the ...

_____ - For Gram-positive and catalase negative cocci, streak a slant of bile esculin agar. _____ - For Gram-positive and catalase negative cocci, perform a CAMP test and test for Taxos A (Bacitracin) ...

EZ-Spread™ Plating Beads from AMSBIO (Oxford, UK) allow you to spread bacterial and yeast cells across the surface of an agar plate in just seconds.. Eliminating the traditional need for glass rods ...

Agar plates close agar plate A Petri dish that contains agar gel and usually some nutrients. Agar plates are used to culture (grow) bacteria and fungi in the lab. are created by pouring hot molten ...

These grim pictures show the bacteria which thrives in the crevices of your mobile phone. Students at the University of Surrey tested their phones for bacterial cells as part of a special experiment.