The companies featured in this week’s Petri Dish are helping innovations take flight (literally), entering the clinic and naming new leaders.

IntroductionA 100mm petri dish containing water is placed on an overhead projector. When solid Pb(NO3)2 is place on one side and solid KI on the other, ...

This week’s Petri Dish welcomes a new chief financial officer to bluebird bio. Meanwhile, Compass Therapeutics is bringing back a familiar face after the company’s recently appointed CEO steps ...

In an effort to better study neurological diseases such as autism and schizophrenia, Austrian biologists are growing human brain cells in a petri dish. "The complexity of the human brain has made ...

Necessity, as usual, was the mother of this invention. "I was doing this science experiment where I needed Petri dishes, but I only had two of them so I had to think of alternatives," Matthew said.

A 100mm petri dish containing water is placed on an overhead projector. When solid Pb (NO 3) 2 is place on one side and solid KI on the other, PbI2 precipitates in the center.

Bacteria may not be the tool of choice for most artists, but for microbiologists getting in touch with their creative side, it can offer an artistic effect that paint can't recreate.

Japanese scientists have cracked open a freaky new chapter in the sci-fi-meets-stem-cells era. A group in Yokohama reported it has grown a primitive liver in a petri dish using a person's skin ...