Sentences with phrase «flat culture dishes»

In cells grown on flat culture dishes, the expression of thousands of genes didn't match up with their normal patterns, explaining why the cells from those dishes had been unable to generate new hair follicles.

Rather than stick the isolated cells on a flat culture dish, they mixed the cells with liquid, then let the mixture hang in tiny droplets from a plastic lid, like condensation on the roof of a container.

Not exact matches

Petri - dish cultures grew into flat cell sheets, while those in a weightless chamber grew into 3 - D spheres.

That's an advantage for drug tests over flat - dish cell cultures currently used because it more accurately represents living tissue and more of the test cells can be kept alive by vessel - supplied nutrients.

Traditionally, cell culture in the lab has been done in petri dishes and on other flat surfaces.

Investigations into human brain development using human cells in the culture dish have so far been very limited: the cells in the dish grow flat, so they do not display any three - dimensional structure.

They discovered that if they maintained the cells in a three - dimensional culture, rather than a flat dish, and used a new mixture of signaling molecules, they could maintain the NPCs for more than 15 months.

The research builds on the team's previous work with a technique called three - dimensional culture, which involves incubating stem cells in a floating ball - shaped aggregate, unlike traditional cell culture in which cells grow in a flat layer on the surface of a culture dish.