Gametogenesis in a dish

A Brain in a Dish.

Ohio State University researchers have made a leap forward in disease research by creating an eraser sized human "brain" in a petri dish1. Although lacking a circulatory system their brain model includes spinal cord, cortex, midbrain, brain stem, and even the beginnings of an eye- aiding in the effectiveness of research on complex neurological disease. To create their new brain model, the resea...

Intestinal Tumor in a Dish

Predicting the response of colorectal cancer (CRC) tumors to novel chemotherapeutic agents is significantly complicated by their underlying genetic and epigenetic diversity. Large-scale clinical trials involving thousands of patients are often necessary in order to accurately determine efficacy during drug development. Recent advances in genetic sequencing has allowed us to improve the predicti...

A Micro-Glucide Dish.

The difficulties met in endeavoring to obtain chemically pure products have incited us to try to develop a micro-technique for the study of carbohydrate fermentation by bacteria. By this technique, used by us since 1941 and involving over five hundred different strains, we have found that we gained much room in our incubators, made a notable saving of time in the preparation of the material, in...

Gametogenesis in Plasmodium.

Patterns that Grow ( in a dish )

Chemotactic bacteria have been observed to congregate into highly regular patterns. When the bacteria are placed in the center of a dish, a wave of bacteria can travel outward, leaving a regular pattern of spots or stripes in its wake. Although chemotaxis and excretion of an attractant can readily cause a pattern forming instability from a uniform state, they are not capable of generating patte...