but after seeing agar art, they may never look at their plates the same way again. And the next time you hear about an E. Coli outbreak, make it a lot less threatening by remembering that not ...

A microscopic image shows colonies of E. coli bacteria grown on an agar plate. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control via Reuters) It's a question being asked by many scientists. "Those of us who ...

Thus organisms capable of lactose fermentation such as Escherichia coli, form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here). MacConkey agar is commonly used to differentiate between the ...

Colonies of E. coli bacteria grown on a Hektoen enteric (HE) agar plate are seen in a microscopic image courtesy of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). (CDC/Reuters) A company that runs a ...