Sentences with phrase «like petri»

They're made with thicker - gauged rubber, they build out, but they also fall in like a petri dish.

That warm, moist ear is like a petri dish for bacteria and yeast (fungi).

Specifically, Lustig's films are read with profit as love letters to The Deuce of pre-Giuliani Times Square — the Harem and the Empire and the Liberty and theatres like them the petri dish, their audiences the agar from which fascinating cultures sprouted up around The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Tom Savini, Pam Grier and Fred Williamson, triple - X and splatter.

Not exact matches

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

Want your Petri - dish animal cells to end up shaped like a porterhouse?

You have to be careful with sprouts too if you're not growing your own, because they're like little petri dishes of bacteria.

So, again like a sponge, the chair has become a Petri dish of bacteria.

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.

Zelinski raises a petri dish holding what looks like a swollen pink seashell, no larger than a fingernail.

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

Dr. Kevin Collins carefully places a petri dish with what looks like a blotch of yellowish slime under a microscope.

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

Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish.

Buy her a rose bouquet each week, when you purchase scientific supplies for yourself like a book, a microscope, a Petri dish, etc..»

STELLAR PETRI DISH The nurseries where stars are born, like Cepheus B (shown), are bathed in ultraviolet radiation.

It's also a far - reaching and revealing digital «petri dish» to study human behavior that may help predict disease outbreaks, like HIV, and inform public health efforts, as several studies and social media experts have shown over the last few years.

With a little help from a team of engineers at Drexel University, these scientists could soon be donning 3 - D glasses in a home - theater - like lab to take their own fantastic voyage into the petri dish.

Yet in 2006, Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University in Japan reported a «crazy» experiment (Hochedlinger's word) to show that mouse skin cells in a petri dish, aided by four genes and viruses that inserted the genes into the cells» DNA, could achieve something like the newt's developmental reversal, becoming just about any cell in the mouse's body.

We used microscopes, pipettes, and petri dishes just like real scientists — I was in heaven!

Discoveries like this can not be made in petri dishes.

There are a number of plant compounds [16] that work in animals or petri dishes, like green tea extracts and resveratrol.

There are a number of specific compounds in plant foods that look promising, but that's based on in vitro studies like this, where they basically just drip some plant compound on bone cells in a petri dish and see a boost in bone builder cells, or a drop in bone eater cells.

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.

This feels like a movie that was grown in a petri dish — poked and prodded with all manner of overcooked symbolism and thesis statements, but fatally absent the genuine human emotions about which it incessantly prattles on.

These characters are such small town specimens that we feel like they're being magnified a million times from a petri dish.

These poster - like displays are actually two giant petri dishes treated with bacteria and fungi.

There are glittery pink and yellow pen parts, forest - green fluff that looks like cotton - candy, pieces of leather, and medical petri dishes.

The beverage concept, based on fortified wines like vermouth, sake and sherry, has been created by bar chefs Dietmar Petri and Johannes Möhring.

Perhaps developer Petri Purho may not want to deal with the considerable hassles inherent in dealing with big publishers like Nintendo.

Also in Encounters, Korean artist Yeesookyung's ceramic shards rejoined with golden epoxy were gathered together in Thousand (2014), appearing like mutating cells in a petri dish.

The neighborhood is like a busy petri dish displaying many stages of the gallery life cycle.

Performers like David Byrne have also used Mass MoCA as a petri dish.

She asked individuals to swab their belly buttons, then wiped the sample on a Petri dish covered in agar, a jelly - like food source for bacteria.

But, if you looked at us like bacteria plunked down on this Earth, we're approaching the edge of the «petri dish.»