Sentences with phrase «in a petri dish of»

The culture of writing and, most acutely, publishing is mutating in the petri dish of instant publishability.

Since the government is not doing it, there should be a consortium of powerful and influential small crafs owners (Hollywood types, business executives, etc.) whose means and environmental awareness could spur research and help transform GA in a petri dish of change, instead of the collection of antiquated technologies that it is today.

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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).

When U.K. television recently aired footage of three foodies tasting meat formed from approximately 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue in a Petri dish, viewers were witnessing a breakthrough that raises both hope and concern.

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.

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

«So McDonald's grew from a million to 500 billion served and Wimpy and his wimpalikes were delighted in the exchange, although their arteries and midsections inevitably came out a loser... But in order to promote and indeed foster continuing symbiosis, both borrower and lender need to operate in a nutrient - rich environment, a «credit» petri dish of sorts which fosters strong bones and healthy lenders and borrowers in their adult years.

The evidence is everywhere we look: in the fossil record, in the genetics of all living things, in a petri dish full of microorganisms.

The morning after pills perform the same function in reverse, preventing the zygote from being implanted, the zygote is no more of a potential child than those in the petri dish.

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.

Conway Morris is part of an increasingly prominent school in the philosophy of biology which offers a refreshingly new stance, one in which the biological universe is not merely an inert petri dish in which purely random genetic diversity andmutation have resulted by Darwinian «survival of the fittest».

Breast milk has been discovered to have cancer - killing properties against many different types of cancer, in a petri dish and in the human body.

But of all the petri - dish experiments occasioned byhis arrival in MLS, the most fascinating will be how one of the world «shighest - paid athletes interacts with his teammates in a bargain - basementleague.

If the levels of chlorine or other cleaning agents are not high enough, germs can proliferate like they are living in a mega-sized petri dish.

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

But T. auensis is particularly hard to culture in Petri dishes and study with the normal tools of molecular biology.

If life spreads between planets, inhabited worlds should clump in space like colonies of bacteria on a Petri dish.

In the case of cancer, the 3 - D model is more powerful than a Petri dish.

It's a new view of life that accounts for diverse possibilities beyond what can grow in a petri dish.

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.

Like many tales of drug discovery, the statin story starts in a petri dish.

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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.

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.

Yesterday somebody ate a $ 375,000 hamburger and we were promised a future of cruelty - free meat grown in a petri dish rather than in an animal.

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.

«We know that if you take these tumor cells out of a patient and put them in a petri dish, they can be killed by chemotherapy,» Beatty said.

When Stamets cultured the mold in his lab, a white circle of mycelium spread over the petri dish from the point of inoculation; it was soon covered with green spores.

To find out, they put droplets of culture medium that cancer cells had grown in on one side of petri dishes.

The bacteria in the dark parts of the Petri dish digested this sugar and so turned black, whereas in the illuminated areas, a light - activated gene prevented the bacteria from eating the sugar, and so these parts remained clear.

Each is about the size of a couscous grain, bathed in the pale orange broth of a petri dish.

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.

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

In the past, nutritional scientists have largely relied on studies of animals, small groups of people, and / or petri - dish biochemistry that may not reflect the vagaries of human metabolism, although Willett uses such studies when he deems it appropriate.

Because the sperm cells used in IVF often need all the help they can get, switching to the diamond petri dishes could give them just the boost they need to fulfill their destiny — thus potentially ramping up the notoriously low success rate of IVF.

«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.

Then they added the engineered virus to a culture of rat neurons in a petri dish.

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.

The «neurochip,» a silicon rectangle about 4 centimeters wide immersed in a petri dish, may be the forerunner of bionic eyes or other medical devices engineered from combinations of silicon and living neurons.

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

Compounds from grapes may kill colon cancer stem cells both in a petri dish and in mice, according to a team of researchers.

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.

Using this approach, they demonstrate that the pathological features of inherited hypercholesterolemia caused by PCSK9 mutations can be reproduced in a Petri dish.

The technique's success in the body of an animal (rather than just cells in a petri dish) has Dzau hopeful that he can adapt it to treat humans within a decade.

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.

The team first used the tried - and - true method of growing yeast in Petri dishes and painstakingly counting how many times an individual yeast cell produced a daughter cell.

In Petri dishes, yeast grown on gel containing 0.5 percent of the sugar glucose produced, on average, about four more daughters than yeast grown with 2 percent glucose — a life span extension of about 15 percent.

The new method has numerous advantages: researchers can sample individual cells of a tissue culture directly in the petri dish.