The human skin is home to a wide variety of bacteria. The composition of the community of bacteria—called the "skin ...

Over the next few sessions in lab you will be learning how to isolate bacterial colonies into individual species. This allows for the creation of a pure culture, a culture of bacteria containing only ...

The skin microbiome plays a key role in skin health and disease. While imbalances in skin microbiome composition are linked ...

In 1881, Robert Koch noted that bacteria grew optimally when inoculated in broth culture media containing fresh meat extract or beef serum. 2 He also encountered difficulties isolating pure cultures ...

After isolating the bacteria in a makeshift lab, Koch realized he could elicit anthrax by injecting animals with pure cultures of the bacterium, eventually known as Bacillus anthracis. The doctor ...