Scientists mix microorganisms with agar, a jelly-like substance from seaweed, to create amazing illustrations in petri dishes Meenakshi J Balaram Khamari's “Microbial Peacock” won second place ...

As a canvas, each artist used a petri dish filled with agar, a jelly type substance where bacteria live and grow. "The artist picked the bacteria they wanted to use based on the different color ...

The American Society of Microbiologists (ASM) recently held its first "Agar ... and a petri dish as a canvas," according to Emily Dilger, ASM's public outreach manager. Agar is a "jelly-like ...

coli, an apple tree grown from fungi and a fluorescent Mario are just some of the masterworks cast in agar jelly by creative ... made from several Petri dishes of bioluminescent bacteria.

Now microbiologists who work with bacteria have a chance to celebrate these friends and foes, turning their petri dishes into artistic ... painted on plates of agar jelly. As you can see, many ...

Balaram Khamari’s canvas is the petri dish. He arranges microorganisms in such a way that they will form artistic patterns as they grow. The medium he uses is agar — a jelly-like substance ...

Her canvas is a Petri dish full of a jelly-like substance called agar, which the brightly colored bacteria love to eat. She carefully dips a flame-sterilized wire—her paintbrush—in the ...

Agar, mixed with a nutritious broth and plated up in Petri dishes, proved to be an excellent way to grow and study bacteria, and that's how Koch eventually identified the bacterium that causes ...

The story is all in the name. Agar.io stems from the substance agar, which is a jelly-like substance obtained from algae that is used to culture bacteria. You are a single celled bacteria in a ...

The shallow "dishes" then can be filled with agar, in which microorganisms can be cultured. "It's a lot better than normal Petri dishes because it costs a lot less to transport to emergencies," he ...