title: The Moore's Law of microbiology - towards bacterial culture miniaturization with the micro-Petri chip.
abstract: A recent publication has reported the fabrication of a new microbial culture device containing an array of unprecedented density - a million growth chambers. This micro-Petri chip should impact on various fields, including biotechnology, ecology, food microbiology and drug development, by enabling high-throughput screens and therefore the detection of rare phenotypes within a large population of microorganisms.
authors.affiliation: Racah Institute of Physics and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University, Givat-Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: Orit
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gefen
authors.forename: Nathalie Q
authors.initials: NQ
authors.lastname: Balaban
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000254:growth & development*; D003470:Culture Media; D008828:Microbiological Techniques; D008904:Miniaturization
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media