The BYU Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology hosted ... to "paint" with bacteria on circular dishes filled with agar, a food material commonly used in research to feed bacteria being ...

Isabel Araque / Jenny Oñate / American Society for Microbiology Scientists began to use agar for experiments as a way to see how microorganisms—which were previously grown on solid food ...

American Society for Microbiology Agar Art 2019 Contest ... Centuries ago, microbiologists grew bacteria on food ranging from potatoes to coagulated egg whites and meat. Robert Koch (1843-1910 ...

Balaram Khamari is a doctoral student in microbiology who has always felt ... artfully arranging it on a jelly like substance called agar. He is part of a growing body of scientists across the ...

Tucked away in labs, scientists and artists like Peñil Cobo have been culturing creations of art on agar for the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) annual microbial art contest. Since the ...

This year's Agar Art Contest, an annual competition hosted by the American Society for Microbiology, is the source of some true microbe masterpieces. For the contest, microbiologists and artists ...

You can take a look at all of the Agar Art Contest entries on the American Society for Microbiology's Facebook page. Elizabeth is a former Live Science associate editor and current director of ...

To change that view, organizers from the American Society for Microbiology held their first Agar Art Contest. The submissions that came in from around the world looked more like paintings than a ...

Agar’s applications span numerous fields, including food, where it serves as a stabilizer ... particularly in microbiology and biotechnology for culturing microorganisms. The wide-ranging ...

The cases all pointed to the same suspect: agar. Agar is and has been a staple of microbiology labs for a century. “We buy it in bulk. We buy kilograms at a time,” Protacio told me.