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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colony counting and zone measuring are used to check plates and pathogenic bacteria and other organisms on spiral plates, pour plates and membrane filters in industries such as food. Paul Ellwood, ...

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 ...