5 days ago — Webindia123.com Growing blood forming cells in petri dish
By transferring four genes into mouse fibroblast cells, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have produced cells that resemble hematopoietic stem cells, which produce milli...

08 Jun 2013 — ScienceDaily Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism now have new research tool: Mature brain cells derived from skin cells
Difficult-to-study diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and autism now can be probed more safely and effectively thanks to an innovative new method for obtaining mature brain cells calle...

04 Jun 2013 — Popular Science Google Doodle Honors Julius Richard Petri, Inventor Of The Petri Dish
To celebrate the birthday of German microbiologist Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the eponymous dish, Google has created a very germ-y, somewhat unsettling Doodle. The animation shows a glove...

04 Jun 2013 — SearchEngineLand Google Celebrates Julius Richard Petri 161st Birthday With Petri Dish Doodle
Google is giving a nod to science today by commemorating Famed German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petris 161st birthday with a Google Doodle. Petri is credited with the invention of the Petri ...

03 Jun 2013 — Scientific American Fake Colon Spills Bacterial Secrets
When bacteria, like some strains of E. coli ,enter the water supply they can threaten public health. To prevent such outbreaks, its useful to know how these microbes behave in their natural env...

31 May 2013 — The Guardian Julius Richard Petri: Google celebrates birth of inventor of the petri dish
German bacteriologist's invention allowed for the better identification of bacteria and the diseases they caused Google has celebrated the birth of the inventor of the petri dish, Julius Richar...

16 May 2013 — Our Town The Cure for Dog Slobber
E.A.T. Gifts offers products you hardly knew you needed By Laura Shanahan I brake for dogs. When Im walking down the street and spot a great-looking doggy, I cant resist giving the pooch a...

14 May 2013 — Web Pro News $325,000 Burger Is The Future Of Meat Production
Would you pay $325,000 for a burger? Probably not. Its hard to get anybody to pay more than a dollar for a burger these days, but one researcher hopes that its $325,000 burger will one day be ch...

07 May 2013 — PhysOrg.com Spitzer telescope puts planets in a petri dish
(Phys.org) -Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle star...

07 May 2013 — ScienceDaily NASA's Spitzer puts planets in a petri dish
Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our...

06 May 2013 — Futurity Breast milk protein fights back superbugs
U. BUFFALO (US) - A protein complex found in human breast milk can help reverse the antibiotic resistance of some bacteria that cause dangerous pneumonia and staph infections, new research shows...

02 May 2013 — Boston Business Journal Will Ed Markey get called out on ObamaCare?
It's no secret that President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul of the health care industry continues to surprise insiders by the extent of its complexity and costs. The law's unintended conseque...

24 Apr 2013 — Popular Science Brain Cells Will Control The Power Plants Of The Future
Living neurons are coming up with better solutions for electricity distribution than people can. Talk about a mind meld. Researchers have hooked up living brain cells, grown in a petri dish...

20 Apr 2013 — Boulder Weekly Relief groups in Haiti prepare for next stage of disaster: disease
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Homeless camps of soiled, colored tarps fashioned into makeshift tents now dot this city, including a park next to Haiti's presidential palace. They are refuges for earth...

12 Apr 2013 — Comment is free The test tube pioneers who gave the world 5 million bundles of joy
Bob Edwards and Patrick Steptoe, who brought happiness to so many, had at first to endure howls of protest "All he wanted was to help." I cannot think of a finer epitaph than that used yesterda...