EZ-Spread™ Plating Beads from AMSBIO (Oxford, UK) allow you to spread bacterial and yeast cells across the surface of an agar plate in just seconds. Eliminating the traditional need for glass rods and ...

Lab technician, Tasha Sturm, 52, waited until her son came in from playing outside before asking him to stick his hand on an agar plate to demonstrate the results in a microbiology class.

The software module for the ProtoCOL 3 colony counter means it can identify microbes and count colonies cultured on CHROMagar plates. It was developed with media manufacturer CHROMagar and can ...

Conventional techniques rely on manual counting, usually employing grids that draw on an agar plate to ensure colonies are counted accurately. Fluorescence imaging provides a less time-consuming ...

A study has been made of the physical chemistry of the development of colonies on the surface of a minimal agar medium by a standard strain of Aerobacter (Klebsiella) aerogenes and by drug-resistant ...

Counting colonies on agar plates is not one of the most entertaining lab tasks. If the redundancy of it all has got you down, you can purchase the Promega Colony Counter app.

The cases all pointed to the same suspect: agar. Agar is and has been a staple of microbiology labs for a century. “We buy it in bulk. We buy kilograms at a time,” Protacio told me.

Available in dispenser bottles suitable for 100 plates or single-use tubes for 50 plates, EZ-Spread Plating Beads are supplied pre-sterilized and ready to use. The ready-to-use sterile packaging, ...