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 ...

Many fields of research and industry depend on being able to quantify bacteria. These include agriculture, healthcare, food production and industry. Some common applications include the accurate ...

Researchers have developed a new way of counting microorganisms that works as much as 36 times faster than conventional methods, cuts plastic use more than 15-fold and substantially decreases the 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 ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Bacteria may be single celled organisms but ...