One of the few drug developers based in Worcester is leaving Wormtown for Waltham. Also, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have ...

It helps to optimize the Agar level in the Petri dish and thereby allows a significant reduction of media costs. Reliable walk-away automation - With the novel Feed-In/ Stack-Out technology ...

There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes, and then there is MEGA, an enormous, 2-foot-by-4-foot slab of black agar infused with a gradient of antibacterial drugs. Researchers built ...

Kondo explains, "When cotyledons (embryonic leaves) of Arabidopsis thaliana on a petri dish are cultivated for about four ...

How is a normal cell transformed into a cancerous cell? The proteins involved in cell division events no longer appropriately drive progression from one cell cycle stage to the next.

In other life science news, Flagship Pioneering brought on board a chief executive for its medical device company working on a virtually painless blood collection process. In the last week, a ...

A staff member checks the condition of a petri dish at a biomedical company in the Beijing-Tianjin Zhongguancun Tech Town, in Tianjin, North China, Feb 20, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

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Sabine Gronow, head of the Pathogenic Bacteria working group at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ. "However, cultivating Treponema pallidum (DSM 117211) in a petri dish is extremely complicated. We are ...

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