In 1928, he was straightening up a pile of Petri dishes where he had been growing ... not too unusual, but all around the mold, the staph bacteria had been killed... very unusual.

There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes ... MEGA has revealed that the fittest antibiotic-resistant bacteria may not necessarily grow the fastest. On the oversized plate, “you can ...

Creating a colony-forming unit commonly starts with adding around 15 ml of molten agar to around 1 ml of bacterial culture in a lidded petri dish ... including mold, bacteria, and fungi, can ...

An inoculating loop can be used to transfer bacteria. It is sterilised by heating it to red hot in a Bunsen flame, before and after use. To inoculate the agar, lift the lid of the Petri dish and tilt.