In order to study bacteria, it has to be grown in the lab. That’s no problem for many common strains of bacteria that are found in our typical environment, or in our bodies. But the world is full of ...

Learn how to make lactic acid bacteria to add beneficial microbial life to your garden Marco Thomas from Marco’s Microbes demonstrates how to make lactic acid bacteria from simple kitchen ingredients.

High-throughput cultivation (HTC) based on a dilution-to-extinction method has been applied broadly to the cultivation of marine bacterial groups, which has often led to the repeated isolation of ...

To help mitigate climate change, companies are using bioreactors to grow algae and other microorganisms that are hundreds of times more efficient at absorbing CO2 than trees. Meanwhile, in the ...

In nature, microbial communities contain multiple species of bacteria. This makes it difficult to isolate individual species of bacteria and culture them in the laboratory. Researchers have now ...

Culturing specimens is a laboratory method for maintaining and propagating viable biological material—typically microorganisms, cells, or tissues—under controlled environmental conditions to enable ...