This agar is used to identify organisms that are capable of producing the enzyme lipase. This enzyme is secreted and hydrolyzes triglycerides to glycerol and three long chain fatty acids. These ...
Thus organisms capable of lactose fermentation such as Escherichia coli, form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here). MacConkey agar is commonly used to differentiate between the ...
Dr. Joshua C. Agar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Drexel University. Prior to Drexel, Joshua was an Assistant Professor in the Department of ...
The cases all pointed to the same suspect: agar. Agar is and has been a staple of microbiology labs for a century. “We buy it in bulk. We buy kilograms at a time,” Protacio told me.
It is therefore important that any petri dish or agar used is sterilised before use, and that aseptic techniques are used to inoculate the plates. An inoculating loop can be used to transfer bacteria.
When the 1925 Geneva Protocol banned the use of bacteriological and chemical weapons in war, he began to urge the creation of a Japanese bacteriological weapons program. Ishii reasoned that such ...
Eileen Agar, also known as Eileen Forrester Agar, was a British artist associated with Surrealism. She was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and passed away in 1991 in London. Her work in ...
On track to becoming the UK’s largest Passivhaus scheme, this substantial regeneration masterplan has transformed the southern portion of Camden’s Agar Grove Estate, bringing with it a collection of ...
The latest high-profile claim that our problems emanate from the rise of the radical right wing came from American late-night TV talk host Stephen Colbert during his softball visit with Canadian ...