News tagged with petri dish


Cell-building discovery could reduce need for some animal research

Cell-building discovery could reduce need for some animal research

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brown University biomedical engineers can now grow and assemble living microtissues into complex three-dimensional structures in a way that will advance the field of tissue engineering and may eventually reduce ...





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Dish, 46 states settle deceptive practices charges

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Dish Network is paying nearly $6 million to settle charges that it improperly marketed, promoted and sold its products and services.


Bacteria show promise in fending off global amphibian killer

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created May 23, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

First in a petri dish and now on live salamanders, probiotic bacteria seem to repel a deadly fungus being blamed for worldwide amphibian deaths and even extinctions. Though the research is in its early stages, scientists ...


Culturing Cells in 3-D

Brown scientists take the petri dish to new dimensions

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 19, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of Brown University biomedical engineers has invented a 3-D Petri dish that can grow cells in three dimensions, a method that promises to quickly and cheaply produce more realistic cells for drug development ...


Dish prevails over TiVo in initial patent ruling

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created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday that it has received an initial favorable ruling related to its patent fight with TiVo Inc.


Researchers capture bacterial infection on film

Researchers capture bacterial infection on film (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new technique that allows them to make a movie of bacteria infecting their living host.


TiVo Inc. sues AT&T, Verizon over DVR patents

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created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- TiVo Inc. on Wednesday sued AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. for patent infringement, including one covering the ability to pause and rewind live TV.


The book of life can now literally be written on paper

The book of life can now literally be written on paper

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George Whitesides and cell biologist Don Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells - and it's as cheap ...


Multiple sclerosis successfully reversed in animals

Multiple sclerosis successfully reversed in animals

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (60) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) completely reverses the devastating autoimmune disorder in mice, and might work exactly the same way in humans, say researchers at ...


Scientists: Stem cells can make blind see

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created Jun 06, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

British researchers hope to make stem-cell treatment of blindness caused by macular degeneration routine within a decade.


Switchable bio-adhesion

Switchable bio-adhesion

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created Sep 01, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new type of property-changing polymer: It is water-repellent at 37°C, which makes it an ideal culture substrate for biological cells. At room temperature it attracts ...



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