In New Orleans, a Loyola University professor has been creating original art out of glow-in-the-dark fish gut bacteria, enough to fill 1000 Petri dishes. Her first major foray into art was ...

“The two became totally, irreversibly intertwined,” Chimileski added. Ever since, Chimileski has captured the intricate structures of hundreds of bacterial biofilms at microscopic and macroscopic ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Petri Dish Picasso is an organization bringing this little-known art to the masses. The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate ...

But when the students go home, Grosser gets out her agar plates and brightly-colored bacteria collection to make literature-based agar art. Posting on Instagram as @thebookishbacteriologist, Grosser ...

This disorder proved very fortunate. In 1928, he was straightening up a pile of Petri dishes where he had been growing bacteria, but which had been piled in the sink. He opened each one and ...

An inoculating loop can be used to transfer bacteria. It is sterilised by heating it to red hot in a Bunsen flame, before and after use. To inoculate the agar, lift the lid of the Petri dish and tilt.