Rhodopsin Expression Level Affects Rod Outer Segment morphology and Photoresponse Kinetics - Elites TV
26 May 2012, 12:04 am
The retinal rod outer segment is a sensory cilium that is specialized for the conversion of light into an electrical signal. Within the cilium, up to several thousand membranous disks contain as many as a billion copies of rhodopsin for efficient photon ...

Complex Backbone in Fossil Fish Smashes Theories - The Epoch Times
25 May 2012, 4:26 pm
“The morphology is just completely different in each series of vertebrae,” Sallan said in a press release. “Like a tetrapod, you can tell which segment you’re looking at from the basic morphology.” She made the unexpected discovery while ...

IRIS International to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences - msnbc.com
25 May 2012, 9:45 am
About IRIS International, Inc. IRIS International, Inc. is a leading global in vitro diagnostics company focused on products that analyze particles and living cell forms and structures, or morphology of a variety of body fluids. The Company's ...

Phylogeny of the Infraorder Pentatomomorpha Based on Fossil and Extant morphology, with Description of a New Fossil Family from China - Elites TV
25 May 2012, 4:37 am
An extinct new family of Pentatomomorpha, Venicoridae Yao, Ren & Cai fam. nov., with 2 new genera and 2 new species (Venicoris solaris Yao, Ren & Rider gen. & sp. nov. and Clavaticoris zhengi Yao, Ren & Cai gen. & sp. nov.) are described from the Early ...

Human-like spine morphology found in aquatic eel fossil - Eureka! Science News
23 May 2012, 2:30 am
For decades, scientists believed that a spine with multiple segments was an exclusive feature of land-dwelling animals. But the discovery of the same anatomical feature in a 345-million-year-old eel suggests that this complex anatomy arose ...

Research Fellow - Scientific American
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
A Post-Doctoral Research Fellow position is available for experts in morphology, physiology, life-history, ecology and taxonomy of the Cladocera, who will make significant contributions to the field of Environmental Genomics at the University of ...

CellaVision introduces CellaVisionR Image Capture System for smaller laboratories within a hospital network - Reuters
22 May 2012, 2:17 am
CellaVision, which develops and sells products for routine analysis of blood and other body fluids in health care, is introducing the CellaVisionR Image Capture System, its new cell morphology system for networked hospitals and associated laboratories.

Squid ink from Jurassic period identical to modern squid ink, study shows - phys.org
21 May 2012, 1:46 pm
The researchers cross-checked their work using separate complementary experiments designed to capitalize on various molecular features unique to melanin and determined the morphology and chemical composition of the material. This combination of ...

Rare Neurons Linked to Empathy and Self-Awareness Discovered in Monkey Brains - Science Daily
21 May 2012, 12:20 pm
The morphology, size and distribution of the monkey VEN suggest that it is at least a primal anatomical homolog of the human VEN. This finding offers new and much-needed opportunities to examine in detail the connections and functions of a cell and brain ...

Everything you need to know about the scientific controversy that could change Triceratops forever - io9.com
14 May 2012, 1:33 pm
Worse, many specimens have been reconstructed incorrectly, making their morphology appear misleading. The worst case scenario is when there's only a single specimen for an entire genera, making it impossible to know if it really is a separate animal ...