Singletary warns that what
happens in the test tube may not be what happens in the body.
But it required a leap of faith that what was
happening in the test tube could be extrapolated to what might actually happen in living human tissue.
Not exact matches
To see if the same chain of events
happens in rheumatoid arthritis, Smith's team
tested whether various kinds of fibroblasts would spur T cell migration
in test tubes.
(And of course
in this instance there is that uncomfortable reality that we all
happen to be
in the
test tube as we're running the experiment, as scientists have noted with concern for 50 years.)