Sentences with phrase «in petri dishes in»

The project team is simulating these processes in petri dishes in order to understand how nanomaterials are transported across these barriers.

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.

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.

Right now, somewhere in the world — in a petri dish in Baltimore, maybe, or in the salivary glands of a laboratory - bred mosquito in Seattle, or in the bloodstream of a villager in Ghana — resides a chemical compound that could help eradicate human history's biggest killer.

To grow the stem cells, scientists remove them from the blastocyst and culture them (grow them in a nutrient - rich solution) in a Petri dish in the laboratory.

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.

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In a recent blog post, CEO Dane Atkinson wrote that his business was «built to be a petri dish, and self - electing teams is the highest - yielding experiment we've tried.»

Their technique, which involves taking a woman's mature oocyte (egg) and fertilizing it with sperm in a petri dish to form an embryo, led to a U.K. woman's giving birth to the first «test tube baby» in 1978.

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

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.

A corn plant growing, left, and petri dishes, right, in Syngenta's research center in Beijing.

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

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

«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.

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

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.

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

If in a petri dish does it have a soul?

SofC Question: Is the fetus located in a female womb or in a lab petri dish?

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.

Doc Even the zygotes in the petri dish at the parenthood clinics are «sinners».

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.

Theo You have yet to address zygotes created outside the womb, they are conceived in a petri dish, not a womb.

When our babies are only generated in Petri dishes?

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.

In some cases genetic selection takes place in the petri dish; those eggs with desirable traits are chosen and the others discardeIn some cases genetic selection takes place in the petri dish; those eggs with desirable traits are chosen and the others discardein the petri dish; those eggs with desirable traits are chosen and the others discarded.

Nor have I ever dug up a hominoid scull or watched a bacterial infection evolve into a resistant strain in a Petri dish.

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.

Meaning if you put it in a petri dish with all the nutrients in the world it would do absolutely nothing.

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.

But it needs a reboot, and I'm not sure how Kimbrel is still on a team that has traditionally grown relievers in a petri dish.

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.

IVF is the process by which an egg is fertilized by sperm in a Petri dish that, if successful, results in (an) embryo (s) 3 - 5 days later.

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.»

When Oncofertility Consortium scientists first attempted to mature primate follicles — which are naturally three - dimensional — in two - dimensional petri dishes, the follicles flattened out and their oocytes collapsed and died.

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

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

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.

For nearly 100 years, the only microbes that biologists could study in detail were those that could be cultured — grown in a petri dish.

However, in our daily work with petri dishes and microscopes, we felt that something was missing.

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

A crew from a set building company was brought in to make Hickey's Petri dish billboards a reality.

In the meantime, researchers could use the cells to study neurological and psychiatric disorders in Petri disheIn the meantime, researchers could use the cells to study neurological and psychiatric disorders in Petri dishein Petri dishes.

After a few hours dividing in a Petri dish, researchers implanted the cloned embryo into a surrogate mother.