Sentences with phrase «samples in petri dishes»

This is especially so in a series of seven medium - sized, thickly layered works - the earliest in the exhibition - that suggest various coagulated microcosms: sticky honeycomb; the human brain; obscure samples in Petri dishes; oily, broken - down newsprint.

To grow these microorganism cultures in the lab, researchers house samples in petri dishes lined with a nourishing gel mixture derived from algae called agar growth media.

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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.

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

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.

«If we can pinpoint which genes control the development of each neuron type, we can generate them in the petri dish from a single sample of human skin cells,» said Dr. Huang.

She carries a sample of the mouse patch in a petri dish; it is about the size of a fingernail, with an array of needles, in rows 11 x 11.

Investigators at the Gene Editing Institute, which is part of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute at Christiana Care, said their new «cell - free» CRISPR technology is the first CRISPR tool capable of making multiple edits to DNA samples «in vitro,» which means in a test tube or petri dish.

In the caption, Greene explained that the petri dishes are part of an experiment comparing the effects of two samples of breast milk — one from a mom feeding a 15 - month - old, and one from a mom feeding a 3 - year - old — on the bacterium M. luteus.

About Sample Close at Hand The works in Sample Close at Hand reference Darwin, medical collections, and biological studies, codified in a series of prints and artist books, and books built into petri dishes.

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.

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.