Learn how to make lactic acid bacteria to add beneficial microbial life to your garden Marco Thomas from Marco’s Microbes demonstrates how to make lactic acid bacteria from simple kitchen ingredients.

Culturing, a term for growing microorganisms in the laboratory, is a basic yet indispensable method in microbiology research. Microorganisms are often cultured in a liquid medium that provides ...

Article reviewed by Phoebe Lostroh, PhD from Colorado College. Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Louis Pasteur prepared the first liquid bacterial culture medium in 1860, ...

High-throughput cultivation (HTC) based on a dilution-to-extinction method has been applied broadly to the cultivation of marine bacterial groups, which has often led to the repeated isolation of ...

Any compounds stuck to the beads can then be tested for desirable properties. If a given compound shows promise, the researchers begin discerning its chemical structure, figuring out which microbes ...

Your kitchen sponge is teeming with microbes. But repeated contact with food waste is not the only reason; a sponge’s unique structure plays a role, too. It could even inspire a new way to grow ...

The vast majority of the critically essential secrets in biology are hidden from researchers. The human microbiome is now considered a human organ, yet the word “microbiome” was not in the research ...