Sentences with phrase «tests in petri dishes»

Researchers at Harvard were even able to WATCH fat come out of fat cells when they tested it in a petri dish.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

In a recent test, the device successfully killed microbes both in a petri dish and when implanted under the skin of a rat; it lasted about two weeks, the amount of time surgery patients are most at risk for post-op infectionIn a recent test, the device successfully killed microbes both in a petri dish and when implanted under the skin of a rat; it lasted about two weeks, the amount of time surgery patients are most at risk for post-op infectionin a petri dish and when implanted under the skin of a rat; it lasted about two weeks, the amount of time surgery patients are most at risk for post-op infections.

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.

The plants grow around the lab in soil - filled flowerpots, on solid substrate in petri dishes, and on pieces of paper immersed in nutritional broth inside test tubes on racks.

Lee, Daugharthy and their colleagues then tested the method to detect the genes skin cells turn on as they multiply and migrate to heal a simulated wound in a petri dish.

While past attempts to treat melanoma failed to meet expectations, an international team of researchers are hopeful that a compound they tested on both mice and on human cells in a petri dish takes a positive step toward creating a drug that can kill melanoma cancer cells without harming nearby healthy cells.

The testing process involved fitting the devices into a standard incubator and using dark field imaging to capture high resolution, single - plane pictures of embryos housed in a petri dish, at five - minute intervals.

After a bit of chemical tinkering, each team then tested their best candidate zinc finger recipes in cells growing in a petri dish.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have discovered a new way to model malaria using stem cells in a petri dish, which will allow them to test potential antimalarial drugs and vaccines.

Since these findings uncovered a link between p75NTR and metabolism, the research team tested — first in a petri dish and then in animal models — whether there was also a link between p75NTR and the circadian clock.

Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing — which often doesn't translate to humans — or in a petri dish, a static environment that doesn't let cells behave as if they are in the human body.»

The more scientists learn about how cells work in a Petri dish or test tube, the more realistically they can set rules for virtual tissues.

The specific drugs designed by WAVE have been tested in cells in a petri dish, where they successfully lowered the mutant protein whilst leaving the normal version relatively untouched.

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.

A plasmid is a type of DNA molecule that can be removed from a cell and maintained and manipulated in a petri dish or test tube.

Most studies are done in «in vitro,» i.e. in test tubes or in Petri dishes outside the body.

Scientists at South Dakota State University tested the effects of this substance, known as PEITC, on human cancer stem cells in a Petri dish.

There are also petri dish studies that suggest gamma oryzanol may help lower cholesterol, and along with other compounds found in the rice bran, which is what makes brown rice brown, may inhibit human cancer cell growth through antioxidant means, anti-proliferative and pro cancer cell suicide mechanisms, immune system modulation, and increasing barrier protection, but again this is all just in test tubes, not people.

So far, I've reviewed the basics on assessing studies and the importance of differentiating essential oils» mechanisms in humans versus in petri dishes or rodents.6 I've also discussed why it is imperative in experiments to use quality, uncontaminated essential oils that are not polluted with plasticizers to provide valid results.6 - 9 Another pitfall I highlighted with in vitro (petri dish) studies included the use of testing trays that contain phthalates and endocrine disruptors which can escape into the experiment along with the essential oils.

Known only as «the Island», Avery's wave - lapped realm is not only a vividly realised fiction, teeming with sights both strange and strangely familiar, it also operates as a petri dish in which the artist tests ideas from the fields of epistemology, aesthetics, mathematics, economics, anthropology, architecture, and beyond.

The bacteria that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, is difficult to study in the lab, as it can't be grown in a test tube or Petri dish.