The phrase
"dish in the lab" means preparing or handling small plates or containers with substances or samples in a scientific laboratory setting.
Full definition
So the team grew a few dozen strains of oyster mushroom, testing each for oil - digesting ability in
petri dishes in the lab.
But when dermal papilla cells from humans are put
into dishes in the lab, they lose their ability to induce the formation of new follicles.
There have also been well documented invitro (in a
petri dish in a lab) studies performed on the antimicrobial effects of colloidal silver on many micro-organisms.
Understanding this process enables Canals» lab to grow a huge number of neurons in
dishes in the lab - useful both for basic research and also as a source of healthy cells for experimenting with cell transplantation.