Microbiologist Nicholas Aicher conducted an experiment to show how much bacteria is on the clothes you try before you buy ...

The soil fungus Mortierella alpina in a petri dish. M. alpina produces special molecules with a worm-killing effect, the malpinins, which it uses to protect itself from predators.

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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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 ...

Skin cells growing in a petri dish (green: cytoskeleton, red: cell-cell junction protein). Use of images is limited to editorial coverage of scientific topics relating to the activities of the Max ...