Plant tissue culture (also known as micropropagation ... sugar and hormones) in a sterilize Petri dish. After a few weeks, many of the embryos will either become contaminated, die or form callus that ...

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.

Orchid growers often rely on expensive propagation techniques to increase plant populations ... induce the growth of cells in Petri dishes. “There are very limited studies on using the organic-based ...

Banana researcher Erostus Nsubuga stands besides a grown tissue culture banana at a model farm in Buloba. PHOTO by DENIS BBOSA. What started as a kitchen tissue culture experiment by a retired ...

The flat petri dishes that scientists have been ... can foster precursor cells for mouse muscle, connective tissue and bone in a dish for up to four weeks. Although it may seem like a bizarre ...

Researchers have gotten pretty good at growing human tissues from stem cells—from heart cells in a Petri dish to ... problem in tissue engineering by looking toward the plant world.