In laboratory dishes, it grows on just about anything, and it can also repair itself.
Scientists were already making cultures of the microbes in laboratory dishes.
The researchers took skin cells from a bull's ear and let them grow for several months in a laboratory dish.
The cells just lay in a laboratory dish for weeks, doing nothing in particular.
For the research, scientists isolated cells from sheep embryos and grew them in laboratory dishes.
Fischer noticed the label attached beneath the clear laboratory dish.
By 1979, scientists had successfully grown most skin cell types in laboratory dishes.
These embryos are placed in a laboratory dish and nurtured until they form a single growing mass.
The eggs can then be fertilized in a laboratory dish.
Research data indicated that the extract killed all of the cancer cells in laboratory dishes.