In 2006, rockets soared for fun and profit, microbes got down to work, and the solar system lost a planet. Microscopic creatures were much in demand, with scientists examining myriad ways to harness ...

Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how the ...

An international team of scientists with a myriad of backgrounds has revealed the process by which unique fingerprints develop. In their research, published open access in the journal Cell, the group ...

In the project, teams from the University of Jena are also looking for suitable bacteria - in the picture: Petri dish with the bacterium Streptomyces lividans - that fix heavy metals dissolved in the ...

Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to cutting-edge science, there is now a lab in California that has petri dishes filled with pea-sized versions of the cavemen's brains. Why ...

Mortierella alpina in a petri dish (IMAGE) Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute - Caption The soil fungus Mortierella alpina in a petri dish. M.