Sentences with phrase «in a petri dish»

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

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.

At the other end of the scale, there's now a new lightweight record - holder growing in petri dishes in California.

Applied to cell cultures in a petri dish, it works.

The central puzzle in treating TB is this: In humans, months of drug treatments are required to kill the bacteria very slowly, yet the same treatments kill bacteria in petri dishes immediately.

«We couldn't engineer human stomach tissue in a petri dish until we first identified how the stomach normally forms in the embryo,» explains Wells.

Once retrieved from the woman's ovaries, the eggs are fertilized with sperm in a petri dish in hopes that one or more will grow into a viable embryo.

Mr. Ward: The green scaly spokes - character you reference was actually born in a petri dish of data.

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.

If you reject any science that doesn't take place in a petri dish you don't have much left.

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

It's one thing to grow neurons 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.

However, it may be possible to partially reverse aging in gut stem cells, at least in a petri dish, researchers report in Cell Reports March 14.

I mean, it's not like it is living in some Petri dish in fixed conditions.

Berger's experiments use slices of rat brain in petri dishes.

Scientists have previously shown that isolated germline stem cells from mice can turn into eggs in a petri dish.

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.

«To date, there has been no systematic means of assessing the fidelity of cellular engineering — to determine how closely cells made in a petri dish approximate natural tissues in the body,» says George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston Children's and senior investigator on both studies.

It's true,» he says, noting that in controlled studies in petri dishes, «it always works.»

A team of developmental biologists led by Hans Schöler and Karen Hübner at the University of Pennsylvania placed densely packed clusters of stem cells from mouse embryos in a petri dish, using fetal calf serum as a growth medium and adding a gene protein that turns green when germ cells form.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes sit in a petri dish at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil on January 27, 2016.

When former White House advisor Steve Bannon called House majority leader Paul Ryan «a limp - dick motherf — er who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation,» the lab he was alluding to was funded by the Kochs.

Take bacteria into the lab and watch them over time in a petri dish.

Jesus Henry Christ (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking and violent images) Baby - daddy comedy about a boy genius» (Jason Spevack) search for his father (Michael Sheen) after learning from his mother (Toni Colette) that he was a test tube baby conceived in a Petri dish.

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.

When our babies are only generated in Petri dishes?

To check out the effect on photosynthesis, the team cultured the transgenic tobacco seedlings in petri dishes at 36 °C.

The numerical simulations on the computer show the formation of ramified patterns very similar to those observed in the petri dishes during the real experiment with ants.

They placed these cells in Petri dishes for 12 days in media that promotes fat production, to mimic an environment that promotes obesity.

But although the method had garnered good results in petri dishes, the approach hadn't worked as well in animals.

Biology has come a long way from the days of mixing things in petri dishes and hoping something interesting happens.

There is an enormous amount of material in print about ethical, legal, and pedagogical issues in developing careers, and I find it disappointing that so many young scientists seem to care only for what is in their petri dishes until they encounter an unsavory bump in their own careers.

Follow - up tests in petri dishes showed that the mutated enzyme killed a variety of cancers.

Until now, scientists thought that, given a head - to - head battle, Strep would win out; that's what always seemed to happen in the Petri dish.

«If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.

Old post i know, but there was a time when many supplements were claiming to «kill the AIDS virus in a petri dish.»

Trust is the goopy bonding agent in the petri dish that is an online gaming team.

No, Darwin's evolution by natural selection was most certainly not based upon merely seeing some bacteria change in a petri dish, and leaping directly to humans and apes having common ancestors.

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 patient.

The testing process involved fitting the devices into a standard incubator and using dark field imaging to capture high resolution, single - plane pictures of embryos housed in a petri dish, at five - minute intervals.

they have their bloom and dying cycles, because the use up the resources limited to the agar - agar in the petri dish.

And our initial experiments, performed in a petri dish, revealed that they did.»

Since these findings uncovered a link between p75NTR and metabolism, the research team tested — first in a petri dish and then in animal models — whether there was also a link between p75NTR and the circadian clock.

«In the study, using human colon cancer cell lines, we showed that the growth of cancer cells can be largely prevented using a combination of both drugs in a petri dish as well as in mouse models,» said Srivastava.

«We were able to recapitulate in a petri dish what we had seen in the patient,» says co-author Peter Fischbach, MD, chief academic officer at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Sibley Heart Center and associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.