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 ...

Friday is the 167th birthday of Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the famous Petri dish.

Was Sundance a “First Petri Dish” of Coronavirus in the States? A swath of Sundance attendees suffered harsh flu-like symptoms, leading a microbiologist to question whether the January ...

A photograph shows one petri dish that was coughed on by a person not wearing a mask and another petri dish coughed on by the same person wearing a mask. In May 2020, a photograph started to ...

Biomedical engineers have created a new method for growing cells in three dimensions rather than the traditional two. This 3-D petri dish allows cells to self-assemble, creating cell clusters that ...

All the works fit into a standard-size petri dish (about four inches in diameter), and many riff on scientific themes.

The Petri dish has influenced the fundamental direction of much cancer research, in Wirtz's view. Because the two-dimensional environment of the dish lends itself much more to studying cancer cells' ...

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 baby and the petri dish A discussion with Andrew Wilkow about that "trick question" on abortion.

“Looks like even 0 seconds is too long,” declared the scientist while holding up the corresponding petri dish, which was freckled with white bacterial spots.

Was Sundance a “First Petri Dish” of Coronavirus in the States? A swath of Sundance attendees suffered harsh flu-like symptoms, leading a microbiologist to question whether the January ...