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 ...

The 'paint' tubes of bacteria sit on a table at the Agar Art Competition. Participants had six color options to choose from to create their art pieces. (Bryan Barba Salazar) The Department of ...

Every year, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) invites people to submit “agar art” - an image created by growing differently coloured microorganisms on a plate of agar. This year, they also ...

A number of microbiologists put their art skills to the test recently as part of the American Society for Microbiology's first Agar Art contest. One microbiologist created a bacterial version of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Kelly Sawyer, a student in the University of New England’s College of ...

There are about a trillion species of microbes on Earth, but usually we only pay attention when one of them, E. coli for example, has led to an outbreak of disease. However, besides a few ...

Who would have thought microbiologists were such good artists? Using a petri dishes as their canvas, scientists from around the world have produced tiny masterpieces for the American Society for ...

In this video from American Society for Microbiology, you can get a look at some really incredibly artwork created by using agar plates, on which bacteria grow, and even learn how to create it ...

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