A 2026 PNAS study reveals Pompeii's pre-Roman Republican Baths were heavily contaminated with human waste and rarely ...

On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial growth — and accidentally discovered the world's first antibiotic. The Scottish physicist and ...

Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a host’s unregulated response to infection (Singer et al. 2016). Septic shock is a subset of sepsis. There are adjacent abnormalities This study ...

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The Yale Summer Cabaret has announced the 51st season of its celebrated summer programming under the banner Petri Dish, a theme that emphasizes experimentation, innovation, and theatrical risk-taking.

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell, the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Petri dish was devised in the ...

The proto-eyes are what really disturbed me. For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of parts of the human brain from stem cells. Such brain “organoids,” ...

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Plants have an extremely high capacity to adapt to their environment. When the seeds of pea sprouts left over from cooking are soaked in water, the sprouts and leaves grow back. Associate Professor ...