Sentences with phrase «in a petri dish as»

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China's government takes innovators and inventors such as Yuyu Yuan and Tao Yu and places them in the equivalent of a giant Petri dish (economic development districts).

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.

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.

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

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.

Another possibility might be to discover new life by process of elimination, which entails putting metabolically active samples gathered from as many locations as possible into petri dishes — and then trying progressively harder to kill whatever is in the 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.

They isolated its entire genetic code — one chromosome that forms a circle — stripping it of all its proteins, and then added genes to make a host organism blue (to make it easy to pick out in a Petri dish) as well as resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline.

The term in vitro, from the Latin meaning in glass, is used, because early biological experiments involving cultivation of tissues outside the living organism from which they came, were carried out in glass containers such as beakers, test tubes, or petri dishes.

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.

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.

«We've now devised a technology where we can effectively treat the surface of living mouse embryos as a petri dish of cells, and carry out genome wide screens on mouse cells in their native environment in vivo,» says Fuchs.

Lee, Daugharthy and their colleagues then tested the method to detect the genes skin cells turn on as they multiply and migrate to heal a simulated wound in a petri dish.

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.

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

The newfound protein might eventually help patients who suffer from the untreatable prion diseases: When the group mixed their artificial protein fragment with a fragment of the PrP protein that usually kills neurons in petri dishes, the mixture killed only half as many cells as the prion fragment alone.

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.

A team at Harvard University has built a computerized system to manipulate worms — making them start and stop, giving them the sensation of being touched, and even prompting them to lay eggs, as seen in the video above — by stimulating their neurons individually with laser light, all while the worms swim freely in a petri dish.

The cell cultures in the petri dishes are of human origin, and in some aspects resemble human brains more than the brains of lab animals such as rats or mice do.

Believing that there was a substance in snot that worked as an antibiotic, he smeared a set of Petri dishes with bacteria and his own special Fleming phlegm, and left the dishes while he took a two - week vacation.

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.

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.

In the second study, a team led by Shahin Rafii at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City used adult mouse cells as their starting material, and then guided them through several steps — including exposure to some of the same gene - activating proteins — to create mature blood stem cells in a petri disIn the second study, a team led by Shahin Rafii at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City used adult mouse cells as their starting material, and then guided them through several steps — including exposure to some of the same gene - activating proteins — to create mature blood stem cells in a petri disin New York City used adult mouse cells as their starting material, and then guided them through several steps — including exposure to some of the same gene - activating proteins — to create mature blood stem cells in a petri disin a petri dish.

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

Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing — which often doesn't translate to humans — or in a petri dish, a static environment that doesn't let cells behave as if they are in the human body.»

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»).

As is often said in the research community, «Cancer is cured in a petri dish every day.»

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You leave the Petri dish in the sun, it's probably not going to work the same as if you'd put it in the fridge.

Curcumin, the bright yellow chemical found in turmeric, on the other hand, significantly supports CYP1 detoxification but can inhibit it at much higher doses — at least in petri dish and animal studies.39, 40 As is usually the case with our physiology, it is far from straightforward, as some healthy sources of fruits and vegetables can actually inhibit CYP1, but generally these foods support detoxification by interacting with multiple CYP enzymeAs is usually the case with our physiology, it is far from straightforward, as some healthy sources of fruits and vegetables can actually inhibit CYP1, but generally these foods support detoxification by interacting with multiple CYP enzymeas some healthy sources of fruits and vegetables can actually inhibit CYP1, but generally these foods support detoxification by interacting with multiple CYP enzymes.

Scientists at South Dakota State University tested the effects of this substance, known as PEITC, on human cancer stem cells in a Petri dish.

Similarly, Indian gooseberries also appear can also be effective in slowing cancer cell growth as shown in a petri dish.

He showed, in petri dishes, that when you want to grow a cancer cell, you have to put it into an acidic environment where it thrives on sugar as its main fuel source.

Optimising your diet with adequate protein to improve satiety and reduce body fat levels to ensure you are physically robust and independent for as long as possible sound like a much safer bet than crossing your fingers hoping that protein restriction (which only seems to work on worms in a Petri dish) will extend your life.

He took the opportunity to highlight free school success as well, describing them as «as petri dishes, they have shined a light on what works in schools» and «a revolution that can not be ignored».

This solo will put somewhat of a new direction from the street collagist on display described as «Abstract Expressionism meets Pop - Art» in pieces similar to «giant petri dishes where his text and pop iconography, aka germs, take over the canvas.»

Known only as «the Island», Avery's wave - lapped realm is not only a vividly realised fiction, teeming with sights both strange and strangely familiar, it also operates as a petri dish in which the artist tests ideas from the fields of epistemology, aesthetics, mathematics, economics, anthropology, architecture, and beyond.

Pace contributes with Corban Walker digital self - portrait as a surly dwarf and with Michel Rovner in a variant on her video petri dishes, and James Cohan and Elizabeth Dee contribute as well.

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.

«Compendium» a series of petri dishes constructed by the artist and by gallery visitors was on display as a Short Show at the Dayton Visual Arts Center in 2009.

Larner will also show several photographs from a late 1987 series, «Tropicana Hotel,» as well as a «culture» sculpture inoculated in a petri dish.

In the words of the artist: «Virgin Birth «N» Turf provides a mad lab where I get to swab the inner - cheek and place under a microscope a petri dish of the contemporary American experience in the shadow of another blisteringly contentious Presidential election, analyzing the gray matter and microorganisms which make us tick as well as the flesh - eating bacteria which plague uIn the words of the artist: «Virgin Birth «N» Turf provides a mad lab where I get to swab the inner - cheek and place under a microscope a petri dish of the contemporary American experience in the shadow of another blisteringly contentious Presidential election, analyzing the gray matter and microorganisms which make us tick as well as the flesh - eating bacteria which plague uin the shadow of another blisteringly contentious Presidential election, analyzing the gray matter and microorganisms which make us tick as well as the flesh - eating bacteria which plague us.

Only then do we have a chance of recognizing the edge of the petri dish and perhaps softening the jolt as populations and appetites crest in the next few decades.

We humans are also different from bacteria in that we have efficient means of transporting and distributing resources also known as markets, we can innovate and find new ways of doing things, and though we are in a petri dish in the sense that yes the world is finite, it is an awfully big petri dish (despite our admittedly large population) and we are not confined to consuming Agar.

For another poster, the students took samples from different surfaces around campus — door handles, elevator buttons, railings, as well as a stapler and three - hole punch in the library — and grew the bacteria from them in petri dishes.

The bacteria that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, is difficult to study in the lab, as it can't be grown in a test tube or Petri dish.