A microscopic enzyme could be the key to helping nitrogen fertilizers stick better to the soil and prevent runoff that causes ...

Food microbiology has seen enormous growth in the last decade, fueled by the global pandemic of COVID-19 and continual routine outbreaks with traditional foodborne pathogens. In addition, climate ...

The main food microbiology lab in the United Kingdom has shared highlights of its recent activity in an annual report. The report covers work of the UK’s national reference laboratory (NRL ...

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 ...

To determine this, plates streaked with strains of E. coli or S. epidermidis bacteria and agar wells filled with one of the honeys were incubated and subsequently the diameter of the zone of ...

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.

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 ...

Amendments to ISO 11133: Microbiology of food, animal feed and water—Preparation ... a resuscitation step on MMGA using membrane filters for the transfer to TBX agar, it was recently revised and ...