Growing cells in Petri dishes sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but the basic elements of the science are actually decades old. (fortune.com)
In addition, LDD patients had abnormally high concentrations of the CILP protein in their lumbar disks.To see what effect the mutated CILP protein has at the cellular level, the researchers added it to rabbit disk matrix cells grown in a Petri dish. (sciencemag.org)
At the other end of the scale, there's now a new lightweight record - holder growing in petri dishes in California. (sciencemag.org)