So that might be one mystery solved, but lint isn't the only thing inside these bizarre human crevices ... She grew the belly-button bacteria in a petri dish and then added it to milk.

The human body is a stressful place for bacteria to ... the tools commonly used in research—like test tubes and Petri ...

Their study, published on Wednesday (January 16) in Nature, offers researchers the possibility of studying diseases related to the vascular system, such as stroke and diabetes, in an ...

Yet the lecture hall at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, with its dim amber lighting, wooden chairs, dried blowfish, human skulls ... Teng spreads bacteria on a petri dish.

He discovered lysozyme, an enzyme occurring in many body fluids ... he was straightening up a pile of Petri dishes where he had been growing bacteria, but which had been piled in the sink.

Use the sterile petri dish to collect fluid from pustules on the ... yet different enough not to bring on the smallpox disease once it enters your body. This similar virus is cowpox.

It is therefore important that any petri ... growing human pathogens which thrive at body temperature (37°C). For safety reasons, plates and equipment should be sterilised after use. Bacteria ...

For the microbes living in people, nutrients are limited their presence varies between different parts of the body. Bacteria ... by placing it in human urine in petri dishes and exposing it ...

Hospital laboratories would incubate plates at 37°C (body temperature ... Reason – this will kill any bacteria that are present in the solution or on the petri dishes.