Definition of PETRI DISH

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Called LifeSupport, the gel-like material is placed in a petri dish, and the printer’s needle creates a three-dimensional structure in the gel. — Craig Young, The Denver Post, "Loveland-made 3D printers could eventually help build human organs," 12 June 2019 Forcing them to circulate their dollars among their own proved to be a cultural petri dish that spawned rousing economic communities, replete with retail stores, restaurants, theaters and other services — all owned by blacks. — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al.com, "Johnson: Birmingham’s downtown revival can’t leave once-thriving district behind," 6 June 2019 Helicopter parenting, along with high expectations and a societal repugnance to the possibility of failure, contributes to what American high schools have become: petri dishes of high stress and exhaustion. — Zach Schermele, Teen Vogue, "Helicopter Parenting Is Usually More Subtle Than Paying for Kids to Get Into School," 22 Mar. 2019 But most people who get bedbugs tend not to talk about it; there's a certain level of shame that comes with saying your stuff has become a petri dish for bloodsucking insects. — Caitlin Moscatello, Redbook, "The Best Tactics to Bedbug-Proof Your House," 26 Jan. 2011 The embryos were grown in a petri dish in a process meant to mimic the embryo’s implantation in the uterus. — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, "Gene-Editing Technique in Human Embryos Draws Skepticism," 8 Aug. 2018 Cells that would die in a petri dish stayed alive for a standard 28-day reproductive cycle. — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, "Menstrual Cycle “on a Chip” Offers a New Window into Female Physiology," 1 June 2017 Step 4 In a process called insemination, the sperm and eggs are placed together in a petri dish and stored that way to facilitate fertilization. — Jennifer Gerson, Marie Claire, "Health & Fitness," 1 Oct. 2018 This new egg is fertilized by the father’s sperm via intracytoplasmic sperm injection, a technique that’s similar to IVF, except the sperm is directly injected into an egg rather than entering the cell on its own in a petri dish. — Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, "3 biological parents, 1 child, and an international controversy," 24 July 2018

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