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.

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 ...

Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing—which often doesn’t translate to humans—or in a petri dish ... Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc ...