There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes, and then there is MEGA, an enormous, 2-foot-by-4-foot slab of black agar infused with a gradient of antibacterial drugs. Researchers built ...

Gajar ka halwa is hailed as one of the most sought-after desserts in an Indian household. The sweet dessert is a carrot pudding made with generous amounts of milk, sugar, cardamom and water.

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Sabine Gronow, head of the Pathogenic Bacteria working group at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ. "However, cultivating Treponema pallidum (DSM 117211) in a petri dish is extremely complicated. We are ...

The accidental discovery of a fungal contaminant in a Petri dish by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 led to development of the antibiotic ... which allows it to rapidly move from food into red blood ...