From each fungal strain, they harvested spores, which were grown individually on agar plates for several weeks so that their DNA could be analyzed and they could be paired with growing spores from ...

The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate people about the important relationship we have with microbes. The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art ...

It is derived from the Penicillium fungus, shown here growing on an agar plate. Many new types of antibiotics were discovered during the 1950s and 1960s, but more recently, this has slowed greatly.

To see how effective erythromycin is, it is tested using bacteria grown on agar plates. This method is used ... of climate change on the growth of the fungus. They have used four different ...