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 ...

Our relationship with microbes has always been complicated. We fear them as “germs,” the organisms behind disease, yet embrace them for their role in the food web and for producing fermented food ...

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 ...

The BYU Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology hosted its annual agar art competition on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Robert Black, the lab administrator for the Microbiology and Molecular Biology ...