Performance of a standard method depends on the quality of reagents, equipment, commercial and in-house test procedures and labs should ensure they have been validated and shown to be fit for purpose.

3M Food Safety has launched a test that can detect aerobic bacteria counts in 24 hours for most food matrices. 3M Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plates uses a dual-sensing indicator technology for ...

Flow cytometry, a technique first applied to eukaryotic cells, has been adapted to the analysis of viability, metabolic state, and antigenic markers of bacteria.1-4 In particular, flow cytometry can ...

Researchers have built a series of AI-driven and computational tools that scan microbial genomes to detect bacterial defense ...