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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Colony-Forming Units (CFU) Scope app has the potential to save researchers the tedium of comprehensively counting bacterial colonies on plates, though investigators may have differing degrees of ...

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 ...

Brugger is hardly alone: if you want to know how many bacteria or viruses you have, the standard method is to plate serial dilutions and count the resulting colonies or plaques. While some scientists ...

Automated image analysis has transformed the traditional approach to colony counting in microbiology, offering objective, reproducible and high‐throughput solutions that overcome the labour-intensive ...

Researchers have developed a new way of counting microorganisms that works as much as 36 times faster than conventional methods, cuts plastic use more than 15-fold and substantially decreases the cost ...