Agar agar can form a stable gel at room temperature, making it an ideal choice for setting custards, puddings, jellies, and ...

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.

This agar is used to identify organisms that are capable of producing the enzyme lipase. This enzyme is secreted and hydrolyzes triglycerides to glycerol and three long chain fatty acids. These ...

This is a differential medium. It tests the ability of an organism to do several things: reduce sulfur, produce indole and swim through the agar (be motile). SIM is commonly used to differentiate ...

Pour the sterile agar plates and allow to set fully. Reason - this provides the selected bacterium with all the nutrients needed to grow. Reason - this allows the bacteria to spread out and to ...

We believe that these structures will provide new capabilities for improvements in cell culture, the study of bacterial physiology ... capillary (gel) electrophoresis, and optical, electron ...

And yet a controversial new concept is emerging that claims gut bacteria are an invisible hand altering our brains. Science is piecing together how the trillions of microbes that live on and in ...

The family team then mixes the bacteria with a natural algae-based gel and spread it on the paintings - which were taken from the walls in the 1960s, then nailed back on, still covered in glue.

Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could be a promising answer to combat one of ...

While many cases are linked to bacterial infection - the most common type of pneumonia - during winter, viral infections also begin to spread. Infection of one or both the lungs is known as pneumonia.