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

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transforming an empty Petri dish into a lush “lawn” of growth. However, as a bacterial colony develops, “growing pains” are inevitable, as proliferating cells must balance growth rates with the stress ...

This encourages growth of the culture without growing ... If we count the number of individual colonies of bacteria on the plates, it is possible to estimate the numbers of individual bacteria ...

The experiment followed an earlier investigation by Alex English, in which he performed similar swab tests on gate seating at ...

Since cefixime and tellurite are known to inhibit most bacteria belonging to Enterobacterales, we found that addition of tellurite inhibited E ...