A vital component in many research fields is the ability to measure bacterial growth for fermentation, antibiotic effectiveness, synthetic biology, and food safety. Estimating bacterial growth ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a microscopic testing approach that measures whether antibiotics truly ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory conditions. A critical factor, however, is whether the active substances actually ...

ASTM has worked diligently to develop a microbial barrier test for terminally sterilized packaging. In 1997, the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and International Organization for ...