This is the first report describing the improved isolation of common filamentous fungi via a method combining cellulose plate and agar plate system. A cellulose plate is a porous plate made of ...

EZ-Spread™ Plating Beads from AMSBIO (Oxford, UK) allow you to spread bacterial and yeast cells across the surface of an agar plate in just seconds. Eliminating the traditional need for glass rods and ...

The BYU Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology hosted its annual agar art competition on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Robert Black, the lab administrator for the Microbiology and Molecular Biology ...

Determination of hemolysis type is a key classification system in medical diagnostics and microbiology, and is especially useful in classifying streptococcal species. Serious infection diseases such ...

Agar is a polysaccharide-based hydrocolloid synthesized in the cell walls of red seaweed, known as agarophytes. 1 Owing to its unique gel-forming ability, agar has wide-ranging applications that ...

Finding Pneumo, by Linh Ngo of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (2nd place) No matter how flamboyant your shower curtain mold is, it couldn't have competed with the fungus that won this year's Agar ...