News tagged with skeletal structures

Researcher uses medical imaging technology to better understand fish senses

University of Rhode Island marine biologist Jacqueline Webb gets an occasional strange look when she brings fish to the Orthopedics Research Lab at Rhode Island Hospital. While the facility's microCT scanner is typically ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The secret life of millipedes

Male adult helminthomorph millipedes usually have one or two pairs of legs from their seventh segment modified into sexual appendages. These specialized gonopods are used as claspers to hold the female during ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researcher finds missing link between ancient toothed whales and modern baleen whales

(PhysOrg.com) -- Erich Fitzgerald, an Australian paleontologist, believes he has found the missing link between ancient toothed whales that caught and ate fish and modern baleen whales that eat by sucking ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Fruit flies on meth: Study explores whole-body effects of toxic drug

A new study in fruit flies offers a broad view of the potent and sometimes devastating molecular events that occur throughout the body as a result of methamphetamine exposure.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Facial structure of men and women has become more similar over time

Research from North Carolina State University shows that they really don't make women like they used to, at least in Spain. The study, which examined hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese skulls spanning four ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Wright State researchers developing skeletal scans to recognize terrorists

The Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures of people at airports, sports stadiums, theme parks and other public places that could be vulnerable to terrorist ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 9

Muscular protein bond -- strongest yet found in nature

A research collaboration between Munich-based biophysicists and a structural biologist in Hamburg (Germany) is helping to explain why our muscles, and those of other animals, don't simply fall apart under stress. Their findings ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0