Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

A photograph shows one petri dish that was coughed on by a person not wearing a mask and another petri dish coughed on by the same person wearing a mask. In May 2020, a photograph started to ...

Federal troops paraded through MacArthur Park on Monday in an astonishing show of force. Mayor Karen Bass says LA is a ...

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Chengxuan Han is accused by federal government of sending four packages to the U.S. from China containing concealed material ...

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Scientists use microbes such as germs and bacteria to make art for the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art Challenge.

In 1887, Julius Petri invented a simple pair of nesting glass dishes, ideal for keeping specimens of growing bacteria sterile--the 'Petri dish.' Science historian Howard Markel recounts the ...

A study from the UK tested swabs from cell phone screens and car keys in petri dishes, and found 241 colonies grew on the key ...

The companies featured in this week’s Petri Dish are helping innovations take flight (literally), entering the clinic and naming new leaders.

In this week's edition of Petri Dish, a Boston cancer biotech is on the hunt for a new CFO, a startup has signed a deal ahead of its IPO and a cancer drug developer raised $175 million.

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