Harvard University researcher Kseniia Petrova is facing a pair of additional charges two weeks after a judge released her ...

Koch’s assistant, Julius Petri, designed a shallow dish for culturing bacteria, and another of his assistants discovered that agar from seaweed made an effective medium. Koch’s postulates ...

It all started with a web browser-based game called Agar.io, made by Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares. In this simplistic massively multiplayer game, players control a circular cell in an endless ...

Petri dishes, controls and with different concentrations of plant extracts (mg/ml), were inoculated with S. aureus strains (10 4 CFU) using a Steer's replicator and were incubated at 37ºC/24 h. The ...

Shares of a Cambordge blood cancer biotech plunged 85% this week after a late-stage drug trial failed. Also in Petri Dish: Two new CEO appointments at Flagship Pioneering spinouts, and a Lowell ...

Barely aware of their surroundings, it begins with a prick of a needle and a drop of blood. In the past, the blood was placed on a petri dish. If Bacillus subtilis grew, it meant that the baby had ...

For the microbiological evaluation, aliquots of blood were seeded in Petri dishes containing blood agar culture medium (Blood Agar Base added with 5% sheep blood). The Petri dishes were then placed in ...

The new bacterium species, Variovorax durovernensis, on chocolate and 5 percent sheep’s blood agar in petri dish. The researchers in London in the U.K. believe that it likely jumped over from sheep.

Rapid Antigen Detection Tests A rapid antigen test is typically done in the doctor's office and is also performed by swabbing the back of the throat. The bacterial swab is subjected to enzymes or acid ...

Recognising this, biotechnologist Mahaletchumy Arujanan started the country’s first science newspaper, The Petri Dish, alongside Sarawak-based journalist Joseph Masilamany.