For the past decade, he has used the phototropic properties of cyanobacteria to produce images in Petri dishes. When the bacteria move out of the shadowed areas, they grow and project Lissel’s ...

When science writer Carl Zimmer looks into a petri dish teeming with E. coli, he sees himself, humanity and all life. In Microcosm, Zimmer traces the lessons biologists have learned from the ...

They’ve built a gigantic variation of a Petri dish, which they call the MEGA (Microbial Evolution and Growth Arena) plate, where you can observe the evolution of antibiotic resistance in a ...

Markus Egert was able to grow some germs in a Petri dish designed to resemble a soccer pitch, with a flag for each opposing team on opposite ends. He then uses the distribution of colonies from ...

coli in petri dishes, according to a new study. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Wild gorillas in Gabon eat several of the ...