Associate Professor Kondo Yuki of Kobe University's Graduate School of Science has focused his research ... of Arabidopsis ...

There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes ... to watch evolution in both time and space—and as they report today (September 8) in Science, MEGA has revealed that the fittest ...

This disorder proved very fortunate. In 1928, he was straightening up a pile of Petri dishes where he had been growing bacteria, but which had been piled in the sink. He opened each one and ...

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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 ...

In the project, teams from the University of Jena are also looking for suitable bacteria - in the picture: Petri dish with the bacterium Streptomyces lividans - that fix heavy metals dissolved in ...

What started in a petri dish such as this could ultimately provide protein for 500 million people annually. From this tissue in the lab, cotton plants with no toxic gossypol in the seed but still ...