It's time for our monthly episode of Science Diction, where we explore the origins of scientific words with my guest Howard Markel, professor of history of medicine at the University of Michigan in ...

Petri dishes have barely changed from the glass containers used by bacteriologist Robert Koch in the late 1800s, but now they're getting a serious upgrade that could cut down on the hours spent ...

With the goal of being able to better study neurological diseases, researchers create a lab-grown brain with stem cells. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the on-demand economy and ...

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The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity, it is extremely difficult to do scientific experiments on it -- ones that could help us to understand neurodegenerative diseases ...

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-size versions of the cavemen's brains. Why ...

If you haven’t checked today’s Google Doodle, grab some disinfectant wipes and check out this birthday homage to German microbiologist Julius Richard Petri, creator of that eponymous laboratory staple ...