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Essay When the Brain Cells in the Petri Dish Stare Back Scientists have created brain ‘organoids’ that may be showing early signs of sentience. Should that give researchers pause?

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

In today’s Petri Dish: Why Replimune Group is shaking up its C-suite, how BioNTech is reacting to a notice of default from the NIH and Intellia ends its collaboration with Regeneron.

Recognising this, biotechnologist Mahaletchumy Arujanan started the country’s first science newspaper, The Petri Dish, alongside Sarawak-based journalist Joseph Masilamany.

Bicester, UK, 6th July 2023: Cherwell, specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions for the pharmaceutical, healthcare and related industries, has published findings of a new impartial ...

Neuroscientists in Australia say brain cells in a lab dish learned to play the classic video game Pong. What’s next?

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 ...

'The perfect petri dish': Animal to human disease outbreaks rise by more than 60% in Africa The outbreaks have emerged as the World Health Organization warns intercontinental travel, increased ...

‘Petri dishes of COVID’: CDC faces call to pause cruises as nearly 90 ships report coronavirus cases At least half a dozen cruise sailings were changed due to coronavirus outbreaks ...