The 'paint' tubes of bacteria sit on a table at the Agar Art Competition. Participants had six color options to choose from to create their art pieces. (Bryan Barba Salazar) The Department of ...

Megan Biesinger paints lungs covered in flowers on her agar plate for the art competition. She uses a drawing on paper towels underneath the plate to trace the image in translucent bacteria paint.

Pull out your art supplies because it's time to get crafty--with agar! At the intersection of biology and art lies a creative medium that's actually alive. Scientists and artists practice etching ...

In what may be the coolest confluence of art and science since drone-swarm light shows, YouTuber and researcher The Thought Emporium, a.k.a. Justin, has made tiny paintings in petri dishes using ...

Every year, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) invites people to submit “agar art” - an image created by growing differently coloured microorganisms on a plate of agar. This year, they also ...

In this video from American Society for Microbiology, you can get a look at some really incredibly artwork created by using agar plates, on which bacteria grow, and even learn how to create it ...

Participants will create agar art by painting with microbes and learn how to use traditional biology lab techniques with artistic tools. A team of trained staff and PhD level scientists will hold an ...

There are about a trillion species of microbes on Earth, but usually we only pay attention when one of them, E. coli for example, has led to an outbreak of disease. However, besides a few ...