Sentences with phrase «things in petri dishes»
Biology has come a long way from the days of mixing things in petri dishes and hoping something interesting happens.
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Sperm may be strong swimmers in their, um, «natural habitat,» but they become notoriously sluggish when you ask them to do their thing in a petri dish.
Not exact matches
The evidence is everywhere we look: in the fossil record, in the genetics of all living things, in a petri dish full of microorganisms.
These artificial environments produce cells and tissues that resemble the real thing more closely than those grown lying flat in a petri dish.
But editing the DNA of cells in a petri dish — or even curing a mouse of a disease — is one thing; making the hot new technology work in humans is a whole other challenge.
«If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.
We humans are also different from bacteria in that we have efficient means of transporting and distributing resources also known as markets, we can innovate and find new ways of doing things, and though we are in a petri dish in the sense that yes the world is finite, it is an awfully big petri dish (despite our admittedly large population) and we are not confined to consuming Agar.