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 ...

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 ...

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Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, ...

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

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 ...

"However, cultivating Treponema pallidum (DSM 117211) in a petri dish is extremely complicated ... bacterium without the use of laboratory animals brings many advantages for science," adds Sabine ...