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They'll not just move out the goalposts on the timeline towards treatments, but the touted uses of stem cells will shift from potential cellular therapies to models of human diseases in Petri dishes and better drug testing methods.
Christine A. Scheller: On the Bridge: A Conversaton Between a Pro-Lifer and an Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher Christine A. Scheller 2010
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They'll not just move out the goalposts on the timeline towards treatments, but the touted uses of stem cells will shift from potential cellular therapies to models of human diseases in Petri dishes and better drug testing methods.
Christine A. Scheller: On the Bridge: A Conversaton Between a Pro-Lifer and an Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher Christine A. Scheller 2010
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They'll not just move out the goalposts on the timeline towards treatments, but the touted uses of stem cells will shift from potential cellular therapies to models of human diseases in Petri dishes and better drug testing methods.
Christine A. Scheller: On the Bridge: A Conversaton Between a Pro-Lifer and an Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher Christine A. Scheller 2010
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White House are like those cultures we grew in Petri dishes in HS Biology.
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He invented new methods - «Reinkulturen» - of cultivating pure cultures of bacteria on solid media such as potato, and on agar kept in the special kind of flat dish invented by his colleague Petri, which is still in common use.
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The man, later identified as Petri, walked away from detectives and threw three credit cards onto the ground, the Secret Service agent said.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News By LEVI PULKKINEN / SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF 2010
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The purchase will add a range of sampling, testing and analysis items for labs, such as Petri dishes, to Corning's life-sciences segment.
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Past swine flu outbreaks have involved pigs becoming infected with avian influenzas and then the pigs acting as a kind of Petri dish, eventually creating a swine-avian hybrid influenza strain, which then evolves into something transmittable to humans.
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Past swine flu outbreaks have involved pigs becoming infected with avian influenzas and then the pigs acting as a kind of Petri dish, eventually creating a swine-avian hybrid influenza strain, which then evolves into something transmittable to humans.
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International activists such as Petri and Shiva and their U.S. colleagues help pull down the veil placed by the corporate fast media in this country.
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