In this week's Petri Dish, a Flagship spinout is moving to sell its assets, Nimbus Therapeutics hit a milestone in its Lilly ...

One of the few drug developers based in Worcester is leaving Wormtown for Waltham. Also, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have ...

Kondo explains, "When cotyledons (embryonic leaves) of Arabidopsis thaliana on a petri dish are cultivated for about four ...

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Over billions of years, evolution has created beautiful materials for making clothes: soft cashmere, thermoregulating wool, luxurious silk, durable cotton. But the human population has exploded ...

There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes, and then there is MEGA, an enormous, 2-foot-by-4-foot slab of black agar infused with a gradient of antibacterial drugs. Researchers built ...

How is a normal cell transformed into a cancerous cell? The proteins involved in cell division events no longer appropriately drive progression from one cell cycle stage to the next.

It helps to optimize the Agar level in the Petri dish and thereby allows a significant reduction of media costs. Reliable walk-away automation - With the novel Feed-In/ Stack-Out technology ...

"However, cultivating Treponema pallidum (DSM 117211) in a petri dish is extremely complicated. We are currently establishing the protocol developed by Professor Norris' group at the DSMZ." Until the ...

Use the sterile petri dish to collect fluid from pustules on the cow's udder. To create a vaccine that will protect you against a pathogen, you usually begin with that pathogen and alter it in ...

Dish and hand soap: Most soaps require you to combine them with water, and since you should keep water away from your phone, ...

Place petri dish on stage of overhead projector. Pour water into dish to a depth of ¼” to 3/8” Scoop a small amount of Pb(NO3)2 into the water at one side of the dish. Scoop a small amount of KI into ...