There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes, and then there is MEGA, an enormous, 2-foot-by-4-foot slab of black agar infused with a gradient of antibacterial drugs. Researchers built ...

Chimileski traveled to microbial science sites across the planet, describing these destinations as “Meccas of microbiology”. His journeys took him on hikes through the backcountry of Capitol Reef ...

Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing—which often doesn’t translate to humans—or in a petri dish, a static environment that doesn’t let cells ...

Some of today’s brain organoids look like little blobs on a petri dish, designed to mimic specific brain regions. Others are ...

considerable difficulties were encountered by repeated contamination of the Petri dishes used for spore counts by spreaders such as Bacillus dendroides. Fig. 1 shows an example of the type of ...