Sentences with phrase «grows in a lab sample»

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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.

So far Kajander and his colleagues have found the nanobacteria in cattle blood, in 80 % of samples of commercial cow serum in which mammalian cells are grown in the lab, and in the blood of nearly 6 % of more than 1000 Finnish adults tested.

Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

While the tissue culture samples and several seeds have already started growing in the tissue culture lab, the first seedlings will only be viable by the end of 2018.

From tissue and cell samples from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the lab.

In September 2015, the team took a 4 - square - centimeter patch of unblistered skin from the boy's groin and grew skin stem cells in the lab from that samplIn September 2015, the team took a 4 - square - centimeter patch of unblistered skin from the boy's groin and grew skin stem cells in the lab from that samplin the lab from that sample.

Traditionally, water was tested for contamination with bacteria by taking a sample and trying to grow the bacteria in the lab.

Yet, today in London Mark Post, a vascular physiologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, allowed two independent tasters to sample a hamburger patty he had grown in his lab.

Shujie Tang, a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab and Stanford University, and a co-lead author in the study, was instrumental in growing 3 - atom - thick crystalline samples of the material in a highly purified, vacuum - sealed compartment at the ALS, using a process known as molecular beam epitaxy.

Traditionally, scientists identified human skin bacteria by swabbing volunteers and culturing the samples, but those results skewed toward microbes that grow well in the lab.

Previously, Ishmael's team had relied on samples isolated from natural specimens, which could not be grown in the lab and had to be harvested from marine environments.

The contents were brought back to the lab and fed methane gas, which helped the archaea in the samples grow.

Because M. lepromatosis can not be grown in the lab and animal models for this version of leprosy do not exist yet, the scientists used an infected skin sample from a patient in Mexico to obtain the bacterium's genetic material.

The lab - grown exosomes stimulated myelin production in a sample of rat brain tissue intended to simulate multiple sclerosis damage, returning myelin levels to 77 percent of normal, Kraig and his colleagues recently reported in the Journal of Neuroimmunology.

The corn is grown using organic standards, but as an added assurance we have lab tested samples from the farm, with no trace of GMOs or glyphosate found in the batches we tested.

An ear culture is a lab test where your veterinarian swabs your pet's ear and sends the sample in to a lab, which actually determines what organism is growing in there and what medication will treat it.