A hot air oven is an essential laboratory equipment used to sterilize heat-stable media, chemicals, laboratory glassware, and other equipment (such as scalpels, scissors, and blades). It uses dry...
Category: Lab Equipment
Taking a total microbial count or total viable count is a regular procedure in clinical, food, dairy, and pharmaceutical microbiology. Traditional manual methods for enumerating bacterial colonies...
The microbiology laboratory deals with isolating, identifying and performing antimicrobial susceptibility testing for microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses, etc. These procedure...
Laboratory automation is a new and essential subject for clinical microbiologists. Though clinical chemistry laboratories adopted full laboratory automation over 20 years ago, diagnostic microbiology...
Gel filtration chromatography separates the samples based on the molecular size and shape of species present in them. It is also called gel permeation chromatography, molecular sieve chromatography,...
Phase Contrast Microscope: Principle, Types and Applications
The phase-contrast microscope is a modified version of the bright-field microscope that helps visualize living cells without affecting the cells' viability. It is termed phase-contrast because it...