Friday is the 167th birthday of Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the famous Petri dish. In 1876, bacteriologist Robert Koch identified the bacteria that causes anthrax; it was the first time ...

Giant petri dish shows how bacteria mutate. 01:17 . Story highlights "MEGA plate," a giant petri dish, illustrates antibiotic resistance. In just days, sensitive bacterial strains developed ...

A study in Frontiers in Oral Health from the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine found that a naturopathic mouthwash containing ...

Bacteria may not be the tool of choice for most artists, ... As a canvas, each artist used a petri dish filled with agar, a jelly type substance where bacteria live and grow.

Google honored the 160th birthday of German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri on Friday with an animated doodle of his eponymous invention — the Petri dish. Born May 31, 1852, Petri invented ...