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

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"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.