We grew bacteria from our WHAT? – 10MPH

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That was awesome!

Hi colleague! I agree with all your suggestions. I’d like to add, that Ethan’s underwear might appear cleaner, since the bacteria Ethan’s skin and unmentionables have died out after the host (Ethan) have left. Arin’s culture actually looks much cleaner than usually samples of that area but it is to be expected out of laboratory conditions.

Wonderful that David Cheeseman is ALIVE and well! 😀

@CaptainScarLeg they’re gonna hang on to that thing as long as they humanly can. And a little past that. Probably.

grad microbio major, the yellow gooey stuff was maybe micrococcus luteus, the fibrous one from arins underwear was contaminating fungal growth and the white one on the same plate was likely to be some mixed growth of candida yeast and staphylococcus species, dirty sonic smelled rank which to me screams faecal bacteria but i saw a lot of fungus on there too, ethans undies were mixed skin flora growth (you cant tell what you have without isolated colonies), i can tell you the red stuff from cheeseman was serratia plus a lot of misc nasty fungus which tends to overtake contaminated plates after long enough…good results from nut agar are usually 24-48hrs in a 37C incubator which will have minimal fungal growth, the problem is they did their agar prep outside a laminar flow hood with media that wasnt autoclaved which probably contaminated it before they even swabbed, they then didnt work around a bunsen burner or use isolation streaking so their plates ended up like that

Worked in a microbio lab for 3 years and yeah smells definitely are useful sometimes you even get a fun specific color that helps too lol not the nicest though for sure