In 1887, Julius Petri invented a simple pair of nesting glass dishes, ideal for keeping specimens ... where we explore the origins of scientific words with my guest Howard Markel, professor ...

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 ... fabric, glass, porcelain, water, steel ...

Over the last week, Boston Scientific announced a forthcoming CFO change, Seres’ reverse stock split and a Flagship startup’s new pharma partnership. 2025 40 Under 40 They are among the most ...

These containers are typically shallow cylinders: a classic example is a petri dish. While a petri dish ... application and a published article in Scientific Reports, is radically changing this ...

Another was optically superior and perfect for scientific telescopes and microscopes ... glasses to find the causes for diseases in glass petri dishes, and developed drugs to fight them in ...

This week’s tour of the Boston life sciences ecosystem includes stops at startups like Seaport Therapeutics and Ring Therapeutics, as well as medical device giant Boston Scientific. Vertex ups ...

Friday is the 167th birthday of Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the famous Petri dish. In 1876, bacteriologist Robert Koch identified the bacteria that causes anthrax; it was the first time ...

After only a week they found that one petri dish out of 152 was crowded with survivors. “At the beginning, we thought it was a mistake,” Navas says. Subsequent experiments showed that the ...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox, David Attenborough, Bill Nye – these are some of the scientists who are known the world over, having appeared on television shows and in the media. They are famed ...