For all the strange things artists have turned into canvasses, Klari Reis manages to stand apart. Since 2009, she's been perfecting the art of painting in petri dishes. Reis is currently nine months ...

For all 94 days of 2013 thus far, Klari Reis has kept to her resolution. The San Francisco-based artist has posted a new petri dish painting—eye candy for any sci-art lover—to her blog, The Daily Dish ...

A microbe-filled petri dish isn't usually where one would expect to find art, but it turns out that cell colonies can form some pretty compelling visuals. The honor of first place went to “Neurons,” a ...

Google Doodle Turns Site Into Petri Dish for Julius Richard Petri Google turned its homepage into a living petri dish today in honor of the 161st birthday of Julius Richard Petri, the German ...

On the 161st anniversary of the birth of Julius Richard Petri, the inventor of the Petri dish used to cultivate bacteria, the Google Doodle shows six dishes with different bacterial cultures in them.

Google honored the 160th birthday of German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri on Friday with an animated doodle of his eponymous invention — the Petri dish. Born May 31, 1852, Petri invented the ...

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A team has induced stem cells to emulate the development of the human heart. The result is a sort of 'mini-heart' known as an organoid. It will permit the study of the earliest development phase of ...

Editor's note: This article appears in print with the title "Inside the Meat Lab." It is not unusual for visionaries to be impassioned, if not fanatical­, and Willem van Eelen is no exception. At 87, ...

A team coaxed stem cells to take on the characteristics and functions of a human adrenal gland, progress that could lead to new therapies for adrenal insufficiencies and a deeper understanding of the ...

For laboratories involved in culture media preparation, sterile dispensing is essential for successful downstream applications and to meet quality requirements. Furthermore, as a growing need for cost ...