Petri dish

One doctor said the condition on broad after the fire made the ship a floating petri dish.

The oil floats on top of the jar and seals out air, leaving water to collect at the bottom, where it acts like a Petri dish for botulism.

On the top of the memrip machine was a round clear disc, a petri dish, with just a smidge of gray matter.

Even some scientists feared that Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards might have brewed pestilence in a petri dish.

After a few hours dividing in a Petri dish, researchers implanted the cloned embryo into a surrogate mother.

Moulds can be made of your limbs and new bits and bobs grown in a Petri dish while you wait.

Mr Newsom has tried to turn it into a Petri dish for new-media and biotech companies.

But stopping communication in a Petri dish is not the same as blocking it in a bacterium's natural environment.

To me, the sex industries are this great petri dish for discovering what drives people, because you get to see them behave in extreme ways.

Gather and Yun put human embryonic kidney cells into a Petri dish and then added the DNA that encodes for GFP to the cells.

As it seeks to broaden ownership of its currency, China is using the special administrative region as a giant petri dish.

That hurdle was overcome by adding a small amount of brain fluid to the petri dish used to grow them.

It's an eco-nightmare, but it's a lot more sanitary than dunking a plate in a bucket of dingy water doubling as a petri dish.

His technician held up a petri dish with a cranberry-colored agar base.

Mold is pretty boring stuff, but when you find it in a Petri dish with bacteria, that's how penicillin was discovered.

Even nematode worms can recognize parasitic bacteria in a petri dish and crawl the other away, Curtis said.

After only a week they found that one petri dish out of 152 was crowded with survivors.

We can do it in the laboratory, in a Petri dish, no problem right now. Question is, can we do it at scale? And no one really knows.

No wonder germophobes -- including me -- are on high alert, viewing every surface as a potentially lethal petri dish.

Spread the contents of the amber onto a petri dish containing a microorganism food like starch or soy.

But even by that standard, PayPal was a petri dish for entrepreneurs.

The mildewproof effect of ultrafine ZnO powder in wheaten paste was evaluated by observation in Petri dish.

For his prototype he isgrowing mouse muscle from stem cells in a petri dish.

A researcher at the University of Nebraska looked at chicken soup and its effect on inflammatory cells in a petri dish.

The difference, of course, is that Messrs. Steptoe and Edwards were hoping to conceive theirs in a laboratory petri dish.

Marban said researchers tried to reduce the high level of Petri dish oxygen by using antioxidants.

As such, it's a study in how a low-end, globalised economy works, a Petri dish without equal.

A weeks-old eel larva in a petri dish glows under blue light.

We've created a petri dish in our factory farms for the evolution of dangerous pathogens.

The fortuitous discovery of penicillin on a moldy Petri dish in 1928 by Alexandar Fleming launched a new era in medicine.

Shenzhen is a petri dish for founding new companies.

In a petri dish, bacteria grow.

Slob that he was, he left a dirty petri dish in the lab sink.

Daniel Kammen: We can do it in the laboratory, in a Petri dish, no problem right now.

Petri dish is a cylindrical container with a lid where biologists use to study cells.

place the segment onto solid medium containing hormones and nutrients to induce cell proliferation in a petri dish;

Testing method for mildew resistance of cloth: mycelial mat degradation method(petri dish)