Staphylococcus epidermidisis gamma-hemolytic. Often when inoculating a BAP to observe hemoloysis patterns, investigators will also stab several times through the agar using an inoculating loop. This ...

It is an industry that was supposed to be cleaned up, after the turn-of-the-millennium­ notoriety surrounding so-called blood or conflict ­diamonds—precious stones mined in African war zones ...

This is in contrast to Streptococcus species, whose growth is selected against by this high salt agar (plate on the right in the picture below). The differential ingredient in MSA is the sugar ...

Your blood sugar goal may vary depending on whether you have diabetes, which type of diabetes you have, and whether you’re pregnant. Keeping track of your blood sugar is a key part of diabetes ...

All blood vessels are specifically structured to perform their function. For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope ...

Eileen Agar, also known as Eileen Forrester Agar, was a British artist associated with Surrealism. She was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and passed away in 1991 in London. Her work in ...

Acute anemia can develop due to a rapid drop in red blood cells (RBCs) after losing blood. The more blood a person loses, the more severe the anemia becomes. It usually occurs due to hemorrhage or ...

Dr. Joshua C. Agar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Drexel University. Prior to Drexel, Joshua was an Assistant Professor in the Department of ...

The government has confirmed it has set aside £11.8bn to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal. More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being ...

Number of first time and repeat blood donors in the U.S. in 2019 and 2021 Distribution of blood types in the U.S. as of 2023 ...