Certain strains of bacteria have evolved a way of providing for neighboring cells after they die, giving up a feast of ...

Indeed, Schwartzman had previously observed that V. splendidus clump up when suspended in liquid media, but the colonies that the bacteria formed this time around were much neater and more organized ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Over the next few sessions in lab you will be learning how to isolate bacterial colonies into individual species. This allows for the creation of a pure culture, a culture of bacteria containing only ...

However, as a bacterial colony develops, “growing pains” are inevitable, as proliferating cells must balance growth rates with the stress of overcrowding and nutrient resource limitations. Other ...

Creating a colony-forming unit commonly starts with adding around 15 ml of molten agar to around 1 ml of bacterial culture in a lidded petri dish, which is then swirled gently to mix the ...

Interactions between bacteria and polymers are ubiquitous in nature. For example, many bacteria live as multicellular colonies in polymeric fluids, including host-secreted mucus, exopolymers in the ...

Reason – this allows the bacteria to spread out and to grow in individual colonies on the agar plate. A lawn of bacteria can be produced by using a sterile spreader to evenly spread the bacteria ...