For instance, Berkmen wanted to film time-lapse videos of the growing microbial art, but it was hard to do without exposing the agar to air, which dries the jelly-like medium out quickly.

Scientists who use bacteria in research grow them either in a broth or on a plate of the gel-like substance agar. They may be studying the microbes directly — for example, to identify the source ...

Overnight, the bacteria fed on the agar which acted as a food source for the bacteria to grow and become colorful. There were six color options for students to paint with, plus a glow-in-the-dark ...

In this video from American Society for Microbiology, you can get a look at some really incredibly artwork created by using agar plates, on which bacteria grow, and even learn how to create it ...

In their basic setup, red light shines through a printed transparency that’s taped to the bottom of an agar-filled petri dish. Only bacteria growing in the transparency’s shadows produce pigment.

Microbiologists from around the world used strands of bacteria to create artwork inside of petri dishes for the 2015 Agar Art Contest, sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology.

Create an agar solution by mixing around 7.5g of agar (it costs about £7 per 100g online) and 2.5g of glycerol or soy protein powder (around £10 for a kilo) per 500ml of salt water.

Finding Pneumo, by Linh Ngo of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (2nd place) No matter how flamboyant your shower curtain mold is, it couldn't have competed with the fungus that won this year's Agar ...

When E. coli bacteria grow together with a few Acinetobacter baylyi, the microbes can form floral patterns in lab dishes.Here is how one bacterial “flower” grew. Such equations have been used ...

We can grow bacteria in an incubator on plates of agar jelly with time, nutrients, and an optimum temperature. These girls at Copthall wanted to investigate the bacteria growing on their possessions.

These shocking pictures show the hundreds of bacteria - some of which can cause skin infections - which can thrive in the crevices of your MOBILE phone. The photos were taken by students at the ...