Recent research has shown that creating a real-life Jurassic Park will be incredibly challenging or impossible; scientists were able to extract modern microbes from dinosaur fossils, but not any ...

In labs, bacterial colonies usually grow in streaks in petri dishes, but until now no one has known how the colonies organize themselves in more realistic three-dimensional (3-D) environments, such as ...

Learn how octopuses use microbial signals to detect rotten food and unviable eggs.

Molecular Devices, LLC., a leading high-performance life science solutions provider, today launched the QPix ® FLEX ™ Microbial Colony Picking System. Building on the company’s 20-year legacy ...

Bioscientists turn bacteria into self-assembling building blocks. The macroscale engineered living materials they form could be used to soak up targeted contaminants from the environment or as custom ...

As research needs expand and high-throughput workflows become indispensable, the demand for automated plating and streaking systems has risen substantially. Automated ...

A new experiment placing bacteria on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) has found that micro-organisms can survive in space for years, or even decades. The study lends weight to the ...

When sticky bacteria meet roaming bacteria in a petri dish, friction between the two can cause flower patterns to blossom. Escherichia coli bacteria growing on a substance similar to Jell-O called ...