All the works fit into a standard-size petri dish (about four inches in diameter), although some strain against the edges. Many riff on scientific themes, if not necessarily biological ones.

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. It caught on ...

Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created "mini-brains " consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish, New Scientist reports.The cells ...

Scientists grow perfect human blood vessels in a petri dish. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 01 / 190116130820.htm ...

PETRI PLATTER A petri dish more than a meter long helped scientists visualize the evolution of antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria. Bacteria placed on the outer edges had to adapt to higher ...

The petri-dish tear glands, however, were pretty close to the real thing, according to Marie Bannier-Hélaouët, a co-lead author of the study and researcher at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht ...