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I am Performing the pomegranate juice evaluation, So Please help me with the process of microbiological assay of vitamin or provide the link of related paper or website
23 June 2021 7,537 3 View
I'm trialing a method of culturing the plant microbiome and I'd like to know if a majority of the microbial cells will still be viable for culturing if I store the whole plant sample in a -80...
18 June 2021 5,232 3 View
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09 June 2021 2,058 1 View
Anaerobic microorganisms are very common in periodontal diseases especially periodontitis. My concern is how to isolate those organisms and transport it to the microbiological lab in a easy way.
08 June 2021 3,614 11 View
We use malt extract agar with addition of 5 % tartaric acid to adjust the pH more acidic for yeast &mold counts (suppress the growth of the bacterial flora). The colonies formed in this medium...
02 June 2021 1,301 8 View
I need to do antimicrobial testing of a sample with gram-negative and gram-positive but I can only do BSL 1 in my lab. S.aureus is often used in the literature of similar experiments but it is BSL...
27 May 2021 2,127 5 View
Hello everyone, I'm a biologist who is interested in the astrobiology and microbiology. I want to study master degree in microbiology and emphasize the thesis project in astrobiology. However I...
10 May 2021 8,275 7 View
I am currently researching the impact of different antimicrobials on the amount of endotoxin released from two different gram-negative bacteria types. I am using nutrient broth as the growth...
19 April 2021 8,409 2 View
Dear all, Hope everyone fine. I'm having a doubt regarding that I'm going to do several in-vitro assays in subsequent days with the bacterial cells. In this regard, Shall I Culture a particular...
16 April 2021 5,257 11 View
We have lost many flasks due to contamination to B. cepacia. We have added Pen-Strep to no avail. What are other antibiotics that could be used in culture media that does not belong to...
29 March 2021 8,214 8 View
I would like to know what is the best dose of levan to use in vivo and the treatment period. I am using mice and I would like to gavage them with levans.
25 March 2021 8,038 4 View
I want to know about the different media used to check the growth and characterization of cadmium resistant bacteria to know the best media for its growth and also to aid identification of the...
23 March 2021 887 6 View
I am performing wastewater treatment thought different microorganisms such as microalgae and afterwards determining the lipid content in the biomass though Bligh and dyer method. Due to the COVID...
11 March 2021 4,994 3 View
Hello Everyone, The past few years have seen a lot of new cyanobacterial taxa being described using a polyphasic approach. It will be interesting to know that what are the various good things...
06 March 2021 4,296 4 View
Hi everyone, I am a new PhD student with very little microbiology experience and I have a few questions regarding the growth of Lactobacillus Reuteri which I hope you can help me with. I want...
04 March 2021 9,835 3 View
Hello everyone, For part of my PhD project, I'm hoping to grow some lactobacillus species in the lab so that I can create standard curves for a qPCR quantification of a faecal sample. However, I...
25 February 2021 3,422 6 View
I am aware of a study that has compared the use of citrated and defibrinated sheep's blood in microbiological media (Hair Sheep Blood, Citrated or Defibrinated, Fulfills All Req... ), but can...
11 February 2021 6,129 1 View
How can I know the stationary phase of growth of several bacteria? We are aiming to collect exoproteome of several bacteria. We know that the ideal time to collect exoproteome is during the...
01 February 2021 4,654 10 View
I have tried to use TTC agar overlay method for a few times to identify respiratory-deficient yeast which were affected by EthBr. The problem is that cells which should have stayed white also have...
23 January 2021 699 10 View
Need to check quorum sensing activity of Vibrio campbellii.
21 January 2021 720 5 View
I received several strains of bacteria from another lab far away. However, one of the samples appears to have high fungal contamination. When I grow it in broth, I see lots of fungal...
04 January 2021 2,920 16 View
the study of microorganisms is called microbiology Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental...
14 December 2020 8,434 6 View
We want to screen halotolerant protease producing bacteria. Since Skim milk (HiMedia) is available in our lab, therefore, we want to screen extracellular protease by this compound/ supplement. We...
05 December 2020 7,785 6 View
Microbiologist’s opinion needed Hello everyone, Short version: We want to study microbiologically influenced corrosion in simulated seawater. How do we cultivate marine bacteria in the...
03 December 2020 6,900 3 View