With human retinas grown in a petri dish, researchers discovered how an offshoot of vitamin A generates the specialized cells that enable people to see millions of colors, an ability that dogs ...

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 ...

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

Three startups launch, and David Liu has co-founded another gene-editing startup. More in the Petri Dish.

The Petri dish has influenced the fundamental direction of much cancer research, in Wirtz's view. Because the two-dimensional environment of the dish lends itself much more to studying cancer cells' ...

In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Neuron, researchers from biotechnology firm Cortical Labs say they were able to teach a cluster of brain cells in a petri dish to play the 1970s ...

Did Taylor Greene actually say “peach tree dish” instead of Petri dish. Apparently, a lot of people did indeed hear her say those peachy words and then subsequently did tweet about it.

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 ...

The lab-grown brain cells create mini-brains called DishBrains that scientist found can be taught how to play pong in just five minutes, while it takes artificial intelligence 90 minutes to learn.

In a proof of concept study, published Thursday in the journal Stem Cell Reports, scientists successfully used human cells featuring Neanderthal DNA to grow tissue in the lab.

San Francisco food-technology startup Memphis Meats says it has developed the world's first chicken strip cultivated from self-reproducing poultry cells in a laboratory.

How growing meat in a petri dish may be the future Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University discusses his efforts to grow meat from stem cells under laboratory conditions.