Petrilume

Description

Petrilume is a hands-on 3D laboratory for microbiology and immunology.

Examine

Sixteen bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, each built in real-time 3D. Slide a section plane through the cell, isolate the capsule, wall, membrane, nucleoid or capsid, tap any structure to name it, and read dated facts with their sources.

Experiment

• Growth curve lab: watch a flask turn cloudy through lag, log, stationary and decline phases. Change the inoculum, temperature and lag, add an antimicrobial in a concept demo, and see resistant cells take over.
• Susceptibility plate: read zones of inhibition on a 3D Petri dish and a microdilution row for four teaching isolates.
• Replication cycles: follow SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, HIV-1 and the T4 phage step by step inside their host cells.
• Immune response simulator: neutrophils hunt pathogens while antibodies, complement and cytokines rise. Tune the load, neutrophils, complement, antibody production and prior immunity, then scrub through two weeks.

Practise

• Gram stain trainer: focus the microscope, stain a mixed smear and learn why decolorizer timing decides the result.
• Culture reading: inspect blood, MacConkey and chocolate plates and name the unknown isolate.
• Original quiz questions with explanations, an organism-to-disease map, daily specimen, streak and progress.

Everything works offline. There is no account.

Education Only

Petrilume is a study aid. It does not diagnose, treat or advise on any condition and must not be used to choose a medicine or dose. Simulations are simplified teaching models; every fact cites a dated source (OpenStax, NIH/NLM, CDC).

Free with ads, optional monthly ad-free. Free with ads. An optional monthly plan removes ads.

What's New

First release.