The software module for the ProtoCOL 3 colony counter means it can identify microbes and count colonies cultured on CHROMagar plates. It was developed with media manufacturer CHROMagar and can ...

Once a year, a small forest in Zambia becomes the site of one of the world's greatest natural spectacles. In November, straw-colored fruit bats migrate from across the African continent to a patch of ...

The ‘lean’ laboratory is one of the buzz phrases in terms of the management of quality control functions inside many healthcare and pharmaceutical facilities. The “lean labs” approach “focuses on cost ...

IMAGE CAPTION: Christian Meyer demonstrates the Geometric Viability Assay (GVA), a new method for counting microbes that works 36 times faster than conventional methods. Credit: Casey Cass/CU Boulder ...

Some researchers spend weeks designing the perfect experiment and executing it with military precision, but before celebrating the fabulous results must confront the mundane chore of counting colonies ...

Everybody who visits Kasanka National Park in Zambia during "bat season" agrees that the evening emergence of African straw-colored fruit bats from their roost site is one of the wildlife wonders of ...

Colony counting is crucial to various applications, including environmental monitoring, food safety testing, pharmaceutical quality control, and research. The information this provides allows us to ...

Counting colonies on agar plates is not one of the most entertaining lab tasks. If the redundancy of it all has got you down, you can purchase the Promega Colony Counter app. This nifty iPhone app ...

Artificial intelligence and computer vision provide most accurate estimate yet. Once a year, a small forest in Zambia becomes the site of one of the world's greatest natural spectacles. In November, ...

Once a year, a small forest in Zambia becomes the site of one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles. In November, straw-colored fruit bats migrate from across the African continent to a patch of ...