The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate people about the important relationship we have with microbes. The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art ...

Quantify system-scale life cycle environmental and economic benefits of agar-based binder use in order to establish quantitative comparisons between novel and traditional binders. Results from this ...

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.