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A picture from the 3rd place winner of the Agar Art Contest by the American Society for Microbiology.Created by a PhD s...
05/11/2021

A picture from the 3rd place winner of the Agar Art Contest by the American Society for Microbiology.

Created by a PhD student at Instituto de Ciencia de materials de Aragon, Isabel Franco Castillo who won third place in the Professional Category.
The 3D volcano is a mound of Agar inoculated with Cladosporium cladosporioides, dripping with dyed-agar lava. The sand is mould spores and the corals are tiny microbes grown on dyed-agar sea.

Agar artCredit
17/10/2021

Agar art

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Did you know?.Now you do
10/10/2021

Did you know?.
Now you do

27/09/2021

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According to researchers on Britain 🇬🇧 , protection against COVID-19 by the doses of Pfizer/BioNtech and the Oxford/Astr...
20/09/2021

According to researchers on Britain 🇬🇧 , protection against COVID-19 by the doses of Pfizer/BioNtech and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines begins to fade within six months of their administration.

Within 5 to 6 months the Pfizer shot fell to 74% and the AstraZeneca fell to 67% 4 to 5months in their effectiveness against the virus.

PHOTO TEACH PHOTO credit: infectious buddies
14/09/2021

PHOTO TEACH

PHOTO credit: infectious buddies

Antibody Opsonization; a process where a pathogen is marked for destruction by antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity...
13/09/2021

Antibody Opsonization; a process where a pathogen is marked for destruction by antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity(ADCC) or complement-dependent cytotoxicity(CDC)

Ukranian-American scientist Selman Waksman was born on 22nd July, 1888.He coined the term antibiotic and discovered Stre...
27/07/2021

Ukranian-American scientist Selman Waksman was born on 22nd July, 1888.

He coined the term antibiotic and discovered Streptomycin with his Laboratory group, it was the first drug effective against Tuberculosis, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1952 for his work.

Agar art
22/07/2021

Agar art

Different Streptomyces on ISP media.ISP media were developed by Difco Laboratories for the International Streptomyces Pr...
25/06/2021

Different Streptomyces on ISP media.

ISP media were developed by Difco Laboratories for the International Streptomyces Project (ISP) in order to select stable properties and reproducible procedures for characterization of Streptomyces species. ISP Medium 1 is also referred to as Tryptone-Yeast Extract Broth.

Different Strep on ISP media.The ISP media were developed by Difco Laboratories for the International Streptomyces Proje...
25/06/2021

Different Strep on ISP media.

The ISP media were developed by Difco Laboratories for the International Streptomyces Project (ISP) in order to select stable properties and reproducible procedures for characterization of Streptomyces species. ISP Medium 1 is also referred to as Tryptone-Yeast Extract Broth.

Bioluminiscent shores as seen in Jervis, Australia.Picture source:Microbiology news
11/06/2021

Bioluminiscent shores as seen in Jervis, Australia.
Picture source:Microbiology news

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