what are the various mediums used to culture bacteria?
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There  ate tons of mediums commercially available to culture bacteria, they come in the from of liquid (broth) or  solid media (agar). They can be non selective, selective or to differentiate.\nBut is you are looking for a household material you can use  baby food or gelatin. It depends on what you want to cultivate.\n For example if you use the baby food there will also grow fungi and other microorganism.
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Usually some sort starch solution:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_medium
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Do it in a laminar flow hood. Follow aseptic techniques.\nDepending on your use, you may suspend your bacterial culture in an appropriate medium.\n\nIf you dont have a laminar flow hood, do it the traditional way...\nwash your hands, then put alcohol.\nwork on a clean table - clean it with alcohol.\nlight an alcohol lamp in the area to clean air.\nopen your culture tube near the light.\ntransfer aseptically the bacterial culture to cuvette\n  - do it near light to ensure no contaminants from air\ncover the cuvetter near the light.
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Try \nhttp://www.cipe.org/publications/fs/ert/e24/Agarwe24.htm
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Live bacteria seems unlikely. Bacterial spores, no problems.\n\nYou would have more luck trying to isolate fungi.
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Well, apparently, they grow quite well on certain caterpillars ...\n\n:-P\n\n... but, seriously, AFAIK the bacterium is not too fussy, or (as we microbiologists generally call it) "fastidious" about its growth requirements.  I assume it will grow on any "minimal" medium, that is, maybe a bit of Yeast Exatract, + / or tryptone or meat extract, with or without addition of agar.  You did not say whether you wanted a liquid or solid growth medium.\n\nWe find Bacillus species as reasonably - common contaminants from the environment.  Our media are designed to isolate bacteria important to human health, so they are more nutritious than Bacillus thuringiensis would need (AFAIK).\n\nIf you do grow it, be careful with it; many members of this genus produce toxins.  I suspect that Bt toxin might not be very good for humans, too.  IMO, it is probably unwise to try to grow bacteria, unless you have appropriate training and laboratory equipment.  For example, you need to sterilise media and equipment, and properly dispose of wastes, in a safe fashion, and according to local bylaws etc.\n\nI am a microbiologist.
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vinegar and baking soda. \nWill also be fun experiment for them!
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Thats quite a platefull there...\n\nI'll help out with a few, afterall... it is your research project.\n\nThink of your common respiratory illnesses... bronchitis, flu, cold... etc.  Then I'd run a search of other respiratory illnesses, pneumonia for example (bacterial AND viral).\n\nHandling of specimens... you should know the aseptic technique.  And your major rule in the micro lab... Treat every microbe as if it were a pathogen.\n\nTypically... you bacterial diseases are cause by Gram Negative bacteria, to isolate those guy you'd grow them up on Mackonkey's Agar.  You can use a number of selective/differential mediums to help isolate your pathogens.\n\nVirus needs to be cultured up similar to parasites... cell culture.\n\nTreatments vary... though most commonly you'll see antibiotics (even when the cause is not a bacteria... thank you very much Doctors...grr)
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here u find article for tissue culture
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CO2. and you can also use vinegar.
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It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying to show colonies of bacteria then you want to draw quadrants and on the bottom of the dish swab an area with the bacteria (swab the bacteria in to each quadrant going to the next one in counter-clockwise fashion) then sanitize the hoop you are using to swab the bacteria,then take a small rub of the bacteria from the area you have already swabbed on the petri dish and continue this until every quadrant has been filled and sanitized before swabbing the next quadrant. This will grow different colonies. Other than that no there isnt a special technique.
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Bacteria, amoebas and fungi
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If you didn't have to physically show it, the best way would be introducing a virus into the bacteria and force it to transplant some of its own genetic material into the bacteria. (Cancer Cells)
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You could do serial dilutions and plate from the dilutions and then extract one of the plugs from the plate and let it sit in some media with a bacterial culture and incubate till it clears. Then put the culture in tube with chloroform and place on ice for 15 mins. Centrifuge it for 20 min at 25000 rpm and remove the supernatant and that will give you a bacteriophage stock.
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Prokaryotes ie; bacteria
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MH agar is more stabilized/buffered media so that byproducts of bacteria can not change pH and hence efficacy of antibiotics tested. \nMH is not the only media to test susceptibility, some organisms need more nutrients and Blood Agar is used to test susceptibility.
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I'm not sure exactly what you are asking, but I'm assuming you want to know how microbiology is similar to stem cell cultivation.\n\nMicrobiologists use media (agar) that has different types of nutrients embedded into it that promote the growth of the organism they want to isolate.  These plates are placed into incubators that also promote the growth of the organism they are trying to isolate.  Sterile technique is used throughout the process to ensure that the media and specimen is not contaminated.  Colonies with desired characteristics are selected and replated on media several times until only the desired organism is isolated.  It is then tested to determine its species and subspecies before resulting the test and making recommendations.\n\nTissue cultures are cells that have also been plated on media that promote the growth of the desired tissue.  In this case, heart valves.  The innoculated media is then placed into incubators.  Desired tissue is tested and placed on new media in order to create a pure tissue source.  Once the desired tissue is grown, it is tested for the presence of the desired antigens, etc.