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

Porvair Sciences announce eGecko² – an automated barcode application system that provides the ideal high throughput solution for precisely applying barcode labels onto racks of plates and Petri ...

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.

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 ...

Here's The Petri Dish, a roundup of news that may get overlooked amid the influx of health care happenings. This week: Homology gets a new CEO, Gingko and Flagship join a lobbying group and more.

The inventor of the Petri dish is being celebrated with a Google doodle today. German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri would have been 160.

On the 161st anniversary of the birth of Julius Richard Petri, the inventor of the Petri dish used to cultivate bacteria, the Google Doodle shows six dishes with different bacterial cultures in them.