Processes That Integrate Pipetting Robots Colony picking is a vital process in biological labs as it's a step that many applications rely on. It's used in microbial screening to identify new bacterial strains with undiscovered behavior or structure and develop new products from drugs to commercial products. Colony picking is also used to separate and [...]
In various biological fields, colony picking is a necessary process that acts as a core step in producing biological matter extracted from bacteria or fungi or for identifying new types of beneficial or harmful organisms. Bacterial, yeast, and fungal colony picking can be done manually using human resources, but this is time-consuming and inefficient. This [...]
A majority of life science research involves culturing and testing microbes, especially bacteria. In culturing these microbial samples, the lab often needs to pick a specific colony and duplicate it.So what is a bacterial colony, and why is it so vital in biological research? A bacterial colony is a mass of bacteria grown from a [...]
Picking bacterial colonies is necessary in many life science labs, especially as part of synthetic biology and protein expression workflows. However, when done manually, this process can be time-consuming. This is where colony picking tools such as colony picking robots are needed. Colony picking robots are worthwhile investments for most labs; but first, what exactly [...]
Wondering what a bacterial colony is? By simple association, lots of people know that "colony" refers to a group, and "bacteria" refer to a type of microorganism. When you put those two things together, a bacterial colony should refer to a group of bacteria, right? Yes, but it is more than that. Bacterial Colony Definition [...]
Picking colonies—whether bacterial or fungal—from agar plates is a core step in culturing isolated, single-strain colonies for life science research.The process of selecting, picking, and inoculating these agar plate colonies is known as a colony picking protocol. Colony picking protocols can slightly vary across labs, but the basic steps are the same in general. Before [...]
Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoa, and more. It includes research on the physiology, cell biology, and biochemistry of the microorganisms—an essential part of this research process requires growing and harvesting microbial colonies. A further definition of a colony in microbiology and the processes involved in working with it follow. [...]
