Federal troops paraded through MacArthur Park on Monday in an astonishing show of force. Mayor Karen Bass says LA is a ...

Friday is the 167th birthday of Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the famous Petri dish.

When he invented the ubiquitous dish that bears his name, Julius Petri, a technician in Robert Koch's laboratory, fundamentally transformed our ability to culture, manipulate and analyze cells ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Uber propose Synthetic Petri Dish, a highly efficient technique for finding optimal AI architectures.

Was Sundance a “First Petri Dish” of Coronavirus in the States? A swath of Sundance attendees suffered harsh flu-like symptoms, leading a microbiologist to question whether the January ...

Editas Medicine has another new executive: a chief scientific officer who spent the last 37 years at Biogen. Read more news about Mass. life sciences companies in this week's Petri Dish.

Model showing bacteria as they mutate to overcome drugs meant to destroy them reveals antibiotic resistance and Darwinian concepts like survival of the fittest.

Scientists use microbes such as germs and bacteria to make art for the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art Challenge.

‘We’re in a Petri Dish’: How a Coronavirus Ravaged a Cruise Ship More than three days passed before Japan imposed a quarantine.