Over billions of years, evolution has created beautiful materials for making clothes: soft cashmere, thermoregulating wool, luxurious silk, durable cotton. But the human population has exploded ...

A Chicago-based microbiologist has busted the five-second rule, proving floor contact instantly contaminates food.

MEDIAJET has been developed to meet these needs. The MEDIAJET system offers the unique flexibility to fill Petri dishes of various sizes, Petri dishes with two compartments as well as test tubes ...

The Petri Dish is a collection of life sciences news that may get overlooked with so much biotech business activity throughout Greater Boston. Business Journal By Hannah Green – Reporter, Boston ...

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.

Make sure to wear gloves whenever you handle your petri dishes. They contain the antifungal agent cycloheximide, which is toxic to humans. In addition to wearing gloves, always wash your hands after ...

It is therefore important that any petri dish or agar used is sterilised before ... bacteria in the original sample. In order to make an accurate calculation of the numbers of bacteria in a ...

A Chicago scientist has gone viral for putting the age-old “five-second rule” to the test and his results are enough to make anyone rethink ... conducted a petri dish experiment to ...