An intervention in which the colony-count threshold was increased for identifying potential urinary pathogens among hospitalized patients reduced antimicrobial prescribing for the treatment of ...

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 ‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...