Art-cleaning bacteria are still on the cutting edge in the restoration world, but they could dramatically improve some old artwork.

Microbes are regularly used in food production, form a large part of your own body, and now they’re also an art medium. American Society for Microbiology Agar Art 2019 Contest, People's Choice ...

Art under siege. Microbes have found their way into museums, caves, and ruins. “Almost any cultural artifact is prone to colonization by microorganisms,” Ana Zélia Miller, ...

Our relationship with microbes has always been complicated. We fear them as “germs,” the organisms behind disease, yet embrace them for their role in the food web and for producing fermented ...

Scientists use microbes such as germs and bacteria to make art for the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art Challenge.

The American Society for Microbiology’s annual agar art awards asked scientists, artists and others to create art out of microbes. This year, the theme was: who is your favorite microbiologist?

Bio-art, an artistic genre that took hold in the 1980s, solidifies, extends and enriches this organic relationship. According to the artist and writer Frances Stracey, it represents: ...

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s Community of Microbes: a celebration of color and science ‘There’s opportunity for people to see the wonder in science.’ ...

In the early 1990s, Eshel Ben-Jacob, a biological physicist at Tel Aviv University, and his colleagues discovered two new species of bacteria—Paenibacillus dendritiformis and Paenibacillus ...

June 6, 2005 — -- More than a century ago, the French artist, Edgar Degas, crafted intricate sculptures from beeswax, lard, clay, and odds and ends such as cork, wood, wire, and rags. Now ...

Scientists use microbes such as germs and bacteria to make art for the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art Challenge.