Petri joined Koch's lab at Germany's Imperial Health Office in 1877, and shortly after that he came up with a decent substitute for potatoes: a round, shallow glass dish with a lid.

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 ...

I coughed on two petri dishes, one while wearing a mask and one not. Shocking! The one on the left with no growth is the one I used a mask for!

This 3-D petri dish allows cells to self-assemble, creating cell clusters that can be transplanted in the body or used to test drugs in the lab.

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' ...

After all, the quaint mountain oasis transforms into a petri dish as some 120,000 festivalgoers from around the world huddle in crowded movie theaters during cold and flu season.

Here's The Petri Dish, a roundup of news that may get overlooked amid the influx of Greater Boston life sciences and health care happenings. While some in the life sciences industry create drugs ...

The baby and the petri dish A discussion with Andrew Wilkow about that "trick question" on abortion. By Tim Grieve. Published March 8, 2006 9:44PM (EST) --Shares. Facebook. Twitter. Reddit.

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 ...

After all, the quaint mountain oasis transforms into a petri dish as some 120,000 festivalgoers from around the world huddle in crowded movie theaters during cold and flu season.