A microbe-filled petri dish isn't usually where one would expect to find art, but it turns out that cell colonies can form some pretty compelling visuals. The honor of first place went to “Neurons,” a ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Believe it or not, your kitchen sponge can make your dishes even dirtier. Researchers say a kitchen sponge can harbor more bacteria than a laboratory petri dish. Eww...but important to ...

The Truth About Petri Dishes 🧫 Watch on (via Minute Earth) One of the best ways of studying bacteria is to grow them on a petri dish, but only a tiny percentage of bacterial species will grow on them ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston developed a gigantic version of a petri dish housing billions upon billions of bacteria to simulate the evolution of antibiotic resistance, according to ...

Are showers more hygienic than baths? Showers win the hygiene debate for the simple reason that the water keeps moving, Dr ...

From the germ theory to Fleming’s moldy petri dish, antibiotics have reshaped medicine and saved millions of lives. But overuse has fueled a dangerous rise in drug-resistant bacteria. Now, scientists ...

A chance observation by Alexander Fleming in 1928 led to the discovery of penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic.

"Disgusting", "Germ filled" and "gross." That's how shoppers describe their feelings about grocery shopping carts. If you wonder if you need to clean your grocery cart consider this study by the ...