This type of medium is both selective and differential. The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the ...

Identification of microbes joins together the discipline of microbiology with the study of infectious diseases. Methods of reliable and accurate microbial identification are valuable to a wide range ...

Studies in normal cells have shown that forced expression of oncogenic H-Ras can induce a senescence-like permanent growth arrest (Serrano et al., 1997; Lin et al., 1998; Lin and Lowe, 2001).