Sentences with phrase «so in a laboratory culture»

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Subsequent work showed that the transgenic milk reduced bacterial growth in laboratory cultures, so the team wanted to know if the same would happen in a real gut.

The particular chemistry and high pressures of vent habitats are difficult to replicate on terra firma, so the majority of deep - sea species have not been cultured in laboratories and much is unknown about their life cycles.

That has led scientists in the last decade or so to look for ways of culturing cells in laboratory settings that are a bit more complex.

«Our stem cells also survive outside of mice, in a culture, so we can also manipulate them in a laboratory,» said Abad, adding that: «The next step is studying if these new stem cells are capable of efficiently generating different tissues such as that of the pancreas, liver or kidney.»

Archaea can be particularly difficult to collect and culture in a laboratory, so we may never get a good look at our long - lost prokaryotic cousins.

«The interesting thing about our ideas on mass separation is that it is a form of magnetic confinement, so it fits well within the Laboratory's culture,» said physicist Nat Fisch, co-author of the paper and director of the Princeton University Program in Plasma Physics.

They also report that the bacteria can not be detected by the usual methods because they enter a kind of «dormant» state and so can not be cultured in the laboratory (Journal of Applied Bacteriology, vol 74, p 421).

This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals.