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 ...

Now, Khamari is bringing the worlds of art and science together – in a petri dish ... and artfully arranging it on a jelly like substance called agar. He is part of a growing body of scientists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In my own brief foray into the laboratory as an undergrad, I poured agar into probably hundreds of petri dishes, a tedious but necessary first step for many experiments. The lab where Protacio ...

coli, an apple tree grown from fungi and a fluorescent Mario are just some of the masterworks cast in agar jelly by creative microbiologists. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!