I'm on the hunt for a microbial saviour – a type of virus that can treat infections rather than cause them. We all know the ...

A study in Frontiers in Oral Health from the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine found that a naturopathic mouthwash containing ...

We know that bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics, but we've never seen it happen. An MIT scientist figured out how to show bacteria surviving antibiotics and invading a giant petri dish.

Scientist collect bacteria, spread it around on petri dish and seal it with epoxy to create art. Over 85 submissions of petri art were received at the Agar Art Contest.

Giant petri dish shows how bacteria mutate. 01:17 . Story highlights "MEGA plate," a giant petri dish, illustrates antibiotic resistance. In just days, sensitive bacterial strains developed ...

Your office is a veritable petri dish of bacteria. April 20, 2016 (iStock) By Sarah Kaplan. The clatter of keyboards. The hum of air conditioning. The smells of coffee and printer ink.

Bacteria may not be the tool of choice for most artists, ... As a canvas, each artist used a petri dish filled with agar, a jelly type substance where bacteria live and grow.

An unwashed pillowcase could harbor 3 million bacteria after just one week, which is about 17,000 times more than a toilet seat, according to data Amerisleep shared this month. You won't sleep ...

Doctors Say They're a "Petri Dish" of Bacteria. Story by Lauren Gray • 5mo. T here are few greater pleasures than slipping under soft, clean sheets for a good night’s sleep.

A recent study from US-based waterfilterguru.com found reusable bottles can harbor 40,000 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat – describing them as being like a “portable Petri ...

This first petri dish contained RuBisCO you’d find in nature — which wasn’t very good, so the petri dish was empty. The second petri dish was full of bacteria with new versions of RuBisCO ...