In the time-lapse video, a white bacterial colony creeps across an enormous black petri dish plated with vertical ... bacteria were cutting off the growth of slower but more drug-resistant ...

Ever since, Chimileski has captured the intricate structures of hundreds of bacterial biofilms at microscopic and macroscopic scales. Using a custom incubator camera setup, he created detailed ...

For his latest hygiene experiment, Aicher decided to place a petri ... dish, which was freckled with white bacterial spots. Coincidentally the five-second sample had roughly the same amount of ...

Shapiro is a bacterial geneticist at the University of Chicago, interested in pattern formation during colony growth ... black when digested. The bacteria in the dark parts of the Petri dish ...

named for the substance used in Petri dishes to encourage bacteria growth: Melanie Sullivan/ASM/Facebook The contest, held throughout September, encouraged participants — anyone with an ASM memb ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Believe it or not, your kitchen sponge can make your dishes even dirtier. Researchers say a kitchen sponge can harbor more bacteria than a laboratory ...

Friday is the 167th birthday of Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the famous Petri dish. In 1876 ... thicken soups -- to firm up the growth medium for the bacteria. She'd learned the trick ...

The submissions that came in from around the world looked more like paintings than a collection of bacteria in petri dishes. One even resembles Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” painting.

Though a study found that Americans only change their sheets once every 24 days on average, experts say that washing once a week is ideal for ridding your bedding of bacterial buildup.

Under ideal conditions, bacterial cell proliferation is exponential, transforming an empty Petri dish into a lush “lawn” of growth. However, as a bacterial colony develops, “growing pains” are ...

video: Duke researchers have created an encryption method based on the patterns made by bacteria growing in a Petri dish. This example reads, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." view more Disclaimer ...