Brief history of culture media in microbiology Louis Pasteur prepared the first liquid bacterial culture medium in 1860, containing yeast, sugar, ashes, and ammonium salt. 2 While developing this, he ...

The American media have a bootleggers-and-Baptists problem. Coined by the economist Bruce Yandle, the term “bootleggers and Baptists” describes how groups that are ostensibly opposed to each ...