Under ideal conditions, bacterial cell proliferation is exponential, transforming an empty Petri dish into a lush “lawn” of growth. However, as a bacterial colony develops, “growing pains” are ...

The paper, "The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth," was published in Nature Physics this week, and it shows that ...

Reason - this allows the bacteria to spread out and to grow in individual colonies on the agar plate ... to allow quick growth and identification. By adding filter paper soaked in a variety ...

which helped scientists isolate bacterial colonies with reduced contamination. 3 Microbiologists still use the eponymous Petri plates today to grow and store bacterial and fungal cultures. Important ...

Although the initial motivation for the study was to better understand the growth of infections in ... "Morphogenesis of ...