Targeting a key enzyme in the microorganism responsible for the disease could stop both its growth and ability to infect.

There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes ... By contrast, the new microbial evolution and growth arena (MEGA) plate separates bacteria both spatially and temporally, thereby reducing ...

Different fungal species isolated from native and disturbed soils within Florida International University's Miami campus and Everglades National Park. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Using a custom incubator camera setup, he created detailed time-lapse videos of colony growth, while electron microscopy allowed him to delve into cellular interactions at the micron level. This work ...

Hospital laboratories would incubate plates at 37°C (body temperature) to allow quick growth and identification ... present in the solution or on the petri dishes.

In other life science news, Flagship Pioneering brought on board a chief executive for its medical device company working on a virtually painless blood collection process. In the last week, a ...

MEDIAJET has been developed to meet these needs. The MEDIAJET system offers the unique flexibility to fill Petri dishes of various sizes, Petri dishes with two compartments as well as test tubes ...

This encourages growth of the culture without growing human ... However, when grown on agar in a Petri dish, each individual cell divides multiple times to form a visible colony.