Carlsbad Woman Puts Petri Dish Under Bathroom Dryer, Breaks the Internet Her Facebook post has been shared over 550,000 times and is trending online ...

In 1887, Julius Petri invented a simple pair of nesting glass dishes, ideal for keeping specimens of growing bacteria sterile--the 'Petri dish.' Science historian Howard Markel recounts the ...

Did Taylor Greene actually say “peach tree dish” instead of Petri dish. Apparently, a lot of people did indeed hear her say those peachy words and then subsequently did tweet about it.

The companies featured in this week’s Petri Dish are helping innovations take flight (literally), entering the clinic and naming new leaders.

Three startups launch, and David Liu has co-founded another gene-editing startup. More in the Petri Dish.

The first organoid of any kind, mimicking part of an intestine, was grown 15 years ago in a Dutch lab. Some of today’s brain organoids look like little blobs on a petri dish, designed to mimic ...

The idea for her Petri dish paintings came to Reis more than 10 years ago, when she was in her early 20s. She became ill with Crohn’s disease and was hospitalized while she was a grad student in ...

Photo: Mitchell Feinberg An aroma like bread dough permeates Raul Cano‘s lab. He has just removed the cover from a petri dish, and the odor wafts up from several gooey yellow clumps of ...

The Board of Supervisors in Shasta County, California, has served as a petri dish for the most noxious refuse of Trumpism over the past few years.

Zachary Copfer developed the technique, which he dubs 'bacteriography', by growing bacteria cultures on the negatives of photographs of famous faces such as Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein.