Sentences with phrase «grown in a petri dish»

For nearly 100 years, the only microbes that biologists could study in detail were those that could be cultured — grown in a petri dish.

It's a new view of life that accounts for diverse possibilities beyond what can grow in a petri dish.

Our cover story, «The Ultimate Social Network,» by Jennifer Ackerman, describes the efforts to map our human microbiome — no easy feat when certain critters, such as the gut bacteria that prosper in an oxygen - free environment, are challenging to grow in petri dishes in a laboratory.

Before sequencing was available at a reasonable price, microbes were identified by growing them in a petri dish.

Yesterday somebody ate a $ 375,000 hamburger and we were promised a future of cruelty - free meat grown in a petri dish rather than in an animal.

Traditional techniques for identifying microbes rely on growing them in Petri dishes, but gut bacteria are particularly tricky to culture.

In BRIC 17 - 1, cell cultures derived from thale cress plants are grown in Petri dishes and later examined to determine which genes are involved in certain cellular changes.

The chemical, which they named lugdunin, inhibited S. aureus from growing in the petri dish, and when applied to the skin of mice infected with S. aureus, it reduced or even eradicated the infection, the team reports today in Nature.

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.

Instead of using whole animals, these models used cells taken from live animals and grown in Petri dishes.

«We can take human brown fat precursor cells, grow them in Petri dishes and then culture them to become energy - dissipating cells,» says Dr. Tseng.

After a bit of chemical tinkering, each team then tested their best candidate zinc finger recipes in cells growing in a petri dish.

Single - cell technologies will be applied to experimental model systems such as organoids, miniature organs grown in the petri dish from one or more cells.

The second used brain organoids, which are often referred to as miniature brains growing in petri dishes, but are actually just bundles of human tissue that have some features of the early human brain in the first trimester.

As part of one of his projects Shain tried to culture neurons, which means he tried to grow them in a petri dish (or, if you want to sound scientific you can say he was growing them in vitro, which is Latin for «in glass»).

Arabidopsis is small — it can be grown in a petri dish or flower pot.

This here, Is what grew in a Petri dish after just a few days.

If you drip the blood of those eating the standard American diet onto cancer cells growing in a petri dish, cancer growth is cut down by about 9 %.

For example, in this apple study, they also measured the ability of apple extracts, from both peeled and unpeeled apples, to suppress the growth of human cancer cells growing in a petri dish, compared to control.

They put people on different diets, drip their blood on cancer cells growing in a petri dish, and then just stand back and see whose blood is better at suppressing cancer growth.

This feels like a movie that was grown in a petri dish — poked and prodded with all manner of overcooked symbolism and thesis statements, but fatally absent the genuine human emotions about which it incessantly prattles on.

Foxfire, our Appalachian glowing mushrooms, are examined in three stages: their infancy growing in Petri dishes; as mycelium; in their mature state found on decaying trees and logs.

Not exact matches

A corn plant growing, left, and petri dishes, right, in Syngenta's research center in Beijing.

Growing cells in Petri dishes sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but the basic elements of the science are actually decades old.

«So McDonald's grew from a million to 500 billion served and Wimpy and his wimpalikes were delighted in the exchange, although their arteries and midsections inevitably came out a loser... But in order to promote and indeed foster continuing symbiosis, both borrower and lender need to operate in a nutrient - rich environment, a «credit» petri dish of sorts which fosters strong bones and healthy lenders and borrowers in their adult years.

But it needs a reboot, and I'm not sure how Kimbrel is still on a team that has traditionally grown relievers in a petri dish.

For more than a century, microbiologists have studied bacteria by isolating, growing and observing them in a petri dish.

To grow these microorganism cultures in the lab, researchers house samples in petri dishes lined with a nourishing gel mixture derived from algae called agar growth media.

The scientists grew these cells in a petri dish and implanted them in mice engineered to be infertile.

Most microbial researchers grow their microbes in petri - dishes to study how they grow and how they respond to damaging conditions.

But there are many hurdles: Among them, growing enough of the cells in a petri dish and ensuring that they connect to «the existing machinery» in the eye, says Hendrik Scholl, who co-directs the Center for Stem Cells and Ophthalmic Regenerative Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

To find out, they put droplets of culture medium that cancer cells had grown in on one side of petri dishes.

For his prototype he is growing mouse muscle from stem cells in a petri dish.

These immortal precursor cells could then be «grown up» in petri dishes and differentiated into normal fat cells.

These artificial environments produce cells and tissues that resemble the real thing more closely than those grown lying flat in a petri dish.

The team first used the tried - and - true method of growing yeast in Petri dishes and painstakingly counting how many times an individual yeast cell produced a daughter cell.

In Petri dishes, yeast grown on gel containing 0.5 percent of the sugar glucose produced, on average, about four more daughters than yeast grown with 2 percent glucose — a life span extension of about 15 percent.

One innovation that Post hadn't described earlier is a circular structure in the middle of the petri dish around which the cells grow.

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

The plants grow around the lab in soil - filled flowerpots, on solid substrate in petri dishes, and on pieces of paper immersed in nutritional broth inside test tubes on racks.

Two cells growing side by side in a petri dish can not be considered identical.

When the researchers added Wnt to petri dishes housing aged stem cells, those stem cells began growing crypts and villi in patterns resembling their younger counterparts.

Cultured in petri dishes, foreign - specific cells grew easily whereas self - specific cells languished.

He would place these cells in a petri dish, feed them and wait for them to grow.

As is typical for most drug resistance experiments, Wall first grew the pathogen in Petri dishes containing the antifungal drug.

Morita explains, «We were growing some of the mutant Mycobacterium in a Petri dish, and they grew very poorly; the mutant colonies had a growth disadvantage.

But for several years scientists at Stanford University's School of Medicine have been working to mimic in a petri dish critical features of development of a human cerebral cortex — essentially working to build models for watching a brain grow.

One new way that scientists study this process of cellular development — and a way in which they hope to grow replacement tissue for medical treatments in the future — is by recreating the essential features of human brains, eyes, lungs, and guts in a petri dish.

Stanford scientists grew brain cells in a petri dish to show the 3D cluster formation in early forebrain development.

To grow the stem cells, scientists remove them from the blastocyst and culture them (grow them in a nutrient - rich solution) in a Petri dish in the laboratory.