June 26 (UPI) --Researchers have developed a way to culture the elusive bacteria that causes syphilis. Despite a century of work, scientists haven't been able grow the spiral-shaped bacterium, called ...

Culturing, a term for growing microorganisms in the laboratory, is a basic yet indispensable method in microbiology research. Microorganisms are often cultured in a liquid medium that provides ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Implant surface culturing method had a specificity of 57.1% vs. intraoperative tissue cultures. Implant surface ...

Microorganisms are the most abundant and diverse form of life on Earth. However, the vast majority of them remain unknown. Indeed, only a small fraction of the microorganisms of our planet can be ...

Researcher Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have devised a low cost, easy to administer method that could help detect the presence of bacteria in food and water ...

Researchers have developed a new technique using sensors to constantly monitor the health of bacteria critical to wastewater treatment facilities and have verified a theory that copper is vital to the ...

A breakthrough urine test could dramatically speed up how doctors treat urinary tract infections, identifying the right ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a rapid and cost-efficient sequencing method that can identify antibiotic resistance within the same working day. The technique, called s5PSeq, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Bacterial infections really stink. And that could be the key to a fast diagnosis. Researchers have demonstrated a quick, simple method to identify infectious bacteria by smell using ...