A microbe-filled petri dish isn't usually where one would expect to find art, but it turns out that cell colonies can form some pretty compelling visuals. The honor of first place went to “Neurons,” a ...

Ordinary petri dishes have been transformed into works of art by local artist, Edgar Sabogal. Sabogal has an exhibition, “Petri Dishes and ARThrax” at the Augusta Savage Gallery on campus. Petri ...

This year, the American Society for Microbiology held its inaugural Agar Art Contest, a competition to make beautiful works of art out of bacteria in a petri dish. Including idyllic countryside farms, ...

PETRI dishes have rarely looked so beautiful, transformed into art. In Vanitas (in a Petri dish), Suzanne Anker selected objects ranging from butterfly wings, mushrooms and mosses to metal and glass ...

For all the strange things artists have turned into canvasses, Klari Reis manages to stand apart. Since 2009, she's been perfecting the art of painting in petri dishes. Reis is currently nine months ...

Who says scientists can’t be creative? The American Society for Microbiology organizes an Agar Art competition, where researchers battle it out by creating artwork in a Petri dish—and these are this ...

Ever wonder what germs are really growing on those subway poles? Brooklyn-based artist Craig Ward decided to find out. After riding all 22 of New York’s subway lines, he collected bacterial samples ...

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If you don't think bacteria are beautiful, think again. This year's Agar Art Contest, an annual competition hosted by the American Society for Microbiology, is the source of some true microbe ...