Sentences with phrase «organism in a test tube»
On one hand, a substance that tests as effective against an illness - causing organism in a test tube only has to be partially as successful in the body.
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«My appreciation for studying traits not only in the test tube, but in the level of organisms, comes from the experiments I did during my undergraduate years.»
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.
Researchers at the Cells - in - Motion Cluster of Excellence at the University of Münster (Germany) have now developed a method enabling them to better evaluate and study the activity of inflammatory cells in mice: they have succeeded in genetically modifying precursors of immune cells, then increasing their numbers in a test tube and finally tracking them spatially and temporally in living organisms.
Biochemical reactions that are responsible for the metabolism of living organisms do not proceed in a test tube: most of them take place in a confined space of a cell, on or even within a biological membrane.
While the majority of studies done on green tea have only been done in vitro (isolated from the living organism — think «test tube») and and in animals, the scientific literature looks promising.