Sentences with phrase «in petri dishes for»

Great to use after pupils have observed the diffusion of a potassium permanganate crystal in water in a petri dish for themselves.

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The initiative takes ongoing tests Macy's has been conducting at its «petri dish» of a store in Woodbridge, N.J. — such as mobile checkout in store and new lighting to make shopping more inviting to 50 stores this year — as a launching pad for a series of initiatives it can roll out to a much greater number of stores in 2019.

Lutheran congregations provide a good Petri dish for studying the megachurch impact, because Lutherans have a distinct theological tradition which they express in a particular liturgical style of worship.

From this perspective, the little hand you can see in the Petri dish in the first video from Center for Medical Progress is not a reason to cry out in horror.

Made from seaweed, agar is the same stuff scientists use in the bio lab for petri dishes.

I just read a great book about supplements and how bad they can actually be for you, particularly antioxidants, as they behave differently in a petri dish than in our bodies.

For the next three seasons, they are a fresh petri dish, an experiment in what the NFL could be if it thought about fans first.

They point out that «Canada is a petri dish for big telecom companies to experiment in their efforts to take back control of communications.»

Just as bacterial cultures flourish in an agar - filled petri dish, laboratories are ideal breeding grounds for close friendships.

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.

After chilling the platelets for up to 12 days and then examining them in a petri dish, Stossel's team found that their function seemed intact.

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

In a recent test, the device successfully killed microbes both in a petri dish and when implanted under the skin of a rat; it lasted about two weeks, the amount of time surgery patients are most at risk for post-op infectionIn a recent test, the device successfully killed microbes both in a petri dish and when implanted under the skin of a rat; it lasted about two weeks, the amount of time surgery patients are most at risk for post-op infectionin a petri dish and when implanted under the skin of a rat; it lasted about two weeks, the amount of time surgery patients are most at risk for post-op infections.

Chrousos's group looked for CRH in human trophoblast cells, special cells that help form the placenta, in petri dishes.

In addition to helping understand disease by providing more powerful study models, «what this technology would allow you to do is reprogram a skin cell, for example, from a Parkinson's patient... into a pluripotent cell and then in a petri dish redirect that cell into... a neuron» to treat that patienIn addition to helping understand disease by providing more powerful study models, «what this technology would allow you to do is reprogram a skin cell, for example, from a Parkinson's patient... into a pluripotent cell and then in a petri dish redirect that cell into... a neuron» to treat that patienin a petri dish redirect that cell into... a neuron» to treat that patient.

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.

For this reason, Stamets maintains an ever - expanding gene library of mushroom strains — more than 500 at last count — in petri dishes at the Fungi Perfecti manufacturing plant.

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

In this way, the mycelium from a single petri dish can be cultivated to help provide food or medicine for thousands of people, or remove pollutants from soil or water.

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

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

Developing safe and effective therapies for conditions such as peripheral nerve disorders requires the ability to take investigations from cells in a petri dish to patients in a clinic.

Day 56: Organoids are again snipped in half and transferred to new petri dishes made of oxygen - permeable plastic to optimize access to oxygen for healthy growth.

For example, researchers could use the sound waves to measure elastic properties of cells in a petri dish, seeing how they respond to forces.

In 2000 NASA engineered a bit of goldfish meat as a possible food for astronauts on marathon journeys, and in 2003 a group of Australian artists with a background in tissue engineering served tiny portions of petri - dish muscle (drowning in sauce to avoid the flavor question) to an invitation - only dinner partIn 2000 NASA engineered a bit of goldfish meat as a possible food for astronauts on marathon journeys, and in 2003 a group of Australian artists with a background in tissue engineering served tiny portions of petri - dish muscle (drowning in sauce to avoid the flavor question) to an invitation - only dinner partin 2003 a group of Australian artists with a background in tissue engineering served tiny portions of petri - dish muscle (drowning in sauce to avoid the flavor question) to an invitation - only dinner partin tissue engineering served tiny portions of petri - dish muscle (drowning in sauce to avoid the flavor question) to an invitation - only dinner partin sauce to avoid the flavor question) to an invitation - only dinner party.

In a paper published Sept. 21 in Cell, Harvard Medical School genetics professor Olivier Pourquié — whose lab discovered the segmentation clock 20 years ago — and colleagues report that they used mouse cells to reconstitute a stable version of this clockwork for the first time in a petri dish, leading to several new discoveries about where the clock is located, what makes it tick and how the vertebral column takes shapIn a paper published Sept. 21 in Cell, Harvard Medical School genetics professor Olivier Pourquié — whose lab discovered the segmentation clock 20 years ago — and colleagues report that they used mouse cells to reconstitute a stable version of this clockwork for the first time in a petri dish, leading to several new discoveries about where the clock is located, what makes it tick and how the vertebral column takes shapin Cell, Harvard Medical School genetics professor Olivier Pourquié — whose lab discovered the segmentation clock 20 years ago — and colleagues report that they used mouse cells to reconstitute a stable version of this clockwork for the first time in a petri dish, leading to several new discoveries about where the clock is located, what makes it tick and how the vertebral column takes shapin a petri dish, leading to several new discoveries about where the clock is located, what makes it tick and how the vertebral column takes shape.

Sci - fi fans and animal - rights activists alike have been announcing its arrival for decades, but in a world where food scientists are still trying to figure out the best ways to extend the life of cake, it's hard to imagine that meat created in a petri dish might gain a place on our dinner plates anytime soon.

They were less likely to school and swim along with other tadpoles (a tadpole proxy for socialization, which is impaired in autism); they weren't as good at avoiding contact with animated images projected on to the bottom of their petri dishes; they didn't habituate to startling noises (another analog to autism in people); and induced seizures were more frequent and shorter than in normal tadpoles.

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.

As a result, the site has become a petri dish for human behavior, capturing everything from celebrity antics to acts of heroism to inane blunders that result in lawsuits, job losses, and even political coups.

After finding that GDF10 was a possible signal for brain repair, the team analyzed the molecule in a petri dish.

Wells said that it takes about six weeks for stem cells to form gastric - fundus tissues in a petri dish.

It is also possible to further develop 3D designer petri dishes for use in biology.

As the Joslin team reports in the journal Nature Medicine, the work began with taking samples of both brown and white precursor cells from four human subjects and genetically modifying these cells to «immortalize» them for long life in a Petri dish.

They completed a screen of 115 mutants x 3 replicates = a lot of petri dishes for their first time in the laboratory.

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.

In order for the revival of the Heath Hen to be possible, engineered cells in a petri dish must develop into live chickIn order for the revival of the Heath Hen to be possible, engineered cells in a petri dish must develop into live chickin a petri dish must develop into live chicks.

«The answers to this could actually help us understand, for example, how to bio-engineer bone in a petri dish,» Dean says.

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.

† But in Petri dish studies and in experimental animals, PRX002 has over 400 times greater affinity for aggregated than monomeric AS.

The more scientists learn about how cells work in a Petri dish or test tube, the more realistically they can set rules for virtual tissues.

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»).

Through Zernicka - Goetz's efforts, this process - essential to the formation of natural embryos - has now for the first time been successfully replicated in a petri dish.

For RNAseq analysis, 3 × 106 breast cancer cells were plated in a 10 - cm petri dish in triplicate in complete medium for 24 houFor RNAseq analysis, 3 × 106 breast cancer cells were plated in a 10 - cm petri dish in triplicate in complete medium for 24 houfor 24 hours.

So, to prepare his petri dishes, my son boiled water, turned off the heat, set the bottle of agar in the pot, and waited for it to melt.

One day after mating, eggs were transferred to a Petri dish, where they were treated with lye diluted to 0.5 % in water for 90 s. Then, they were washed 3 times for 3 min with water, and maintained for 24 h at 28.5 °C.

Complementing the work of my colleagues in the Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, our efforts to learn more about how the heart forms can improve methods for creating heart cells from stem cells, either in a petri dish or inside a patient after a heart attack.

While this is just the beginning of research into the theory — so far it's only been studied in petri dishes and animals — many Alzheimer's researchers are intrigued by the idea and what it could mean for a cure.