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Podcast: Tiny sea creature and a new medical adhesive

Scientists questing after a long-sought new medical adhesive describe copying the natural glue secreted by a tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm in the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Secrets of the sandcastle worm could yield a powerful medical adhesive (w/ Video)

Scientists have copied the natural glue secreted by a tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm in an effort to develop a long-sought medical adhesive needed to repair bones shattered in battlefield injuries, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Study of diving beetles suggest sperm evolution may be driven by changes in female reproductive organs

Studying female reproductive tracts and sperm in diving beetles (Dytiscidae), researchers from the University of Arizona and Syracuse University have obtained a glimpse into a bizarre and amazing world of spe ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists show in unprecedented detail how cortical nerve cells form synapses with neighbors

Newly published research led by Professor Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) sheds important new light on how neurons in the developing brain make connections with one another. This activity, called ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Males more considerate than imagined

Male worms plug females after copulation as a form of 'gift', rather than to prevent them from mating again, as had previously been thought. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology found ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Glue, fly, glue: Caddisflies' underwater silk adhesive might suture wounds

Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

BBS proteins shown to run an export business that protects cilia

A protein complex mutated in human disease removes excess signaling molecules to prevent them from damaging cilia, say researchers from UMass Medical School. The study will be published in the December 28 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Superglue from the sea: Synthetic sea worm glue may mend shattered knee, face bones

Sandcastle worms live in intertidal surf, building sturdy tube-shaped homes from bits of sand and shell and their own natural glue. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version ...

Chemistry /

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Uncovering Secrets Of Abalone Body Armor

Engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego are using the shell of a seaweed-eating snail as a guide in the development of a new generation of bullet-stopping armor. The colorful oval ...

Physics /

created Jan 14, 2005 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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