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

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 ...

Petri joined Koch's lab at Germany's Imperial Health Office in 1877, and shortly after that he came up with a decent substitute for potatoes: a round, shallow glass dish with a lid.

The team tried another antibiotic in their giant petri dish: ciprofloxacin. As Baym explained, the team believed cipro’s path to resistance would be different from that of trimethoprim.

The lab-grown brain cells create mini-brains called DishBrains that scientist found can be taught how to play pong in just five minutes, while it takes artificial intelligence 90 minutes to learn.

Synthetic Petri Dish takes an idea from biology to address this dilemma: It uses candidate architectures to create small models and evaluate them with generated data samples, ...

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.

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 ...