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First Immortal Cell Line Cultured for Reef-Building Corals
Lab-grown cells from the reef-building coral Acropora tenuis provide new opportunities to study bleaching, symbioses, and biomineralization.
First Immortal Cell Line Cultured for Reef-Building Corals
First Immortal Cell Line Cultured for Reef-Building Corals

Lab-grown cells from the reef-building coral Acropora tenuis provide new opportunities to study bleaching, symbioses, and biomineralization.

Lab-grown cells from the reef-building coral Acropora tenuis provide new opportunities to study bleaching, symbioses, and biomineralization.

physiology, techniques

Infographic: How Scientists Are Creating Coral Cell Lines
Amanda Heidt | Jul 1, 2021 | 1 min read
Stable, long-term cell lines will enable scientists to study everything from coral bleaching to biomineralization, knowledge that may help protect corals from ongoing climate change.
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Nobel Laureate Richard Ernst Dies at 87
Lisa Winter | Jun 11, 2021 | 3 min read
The chemist refined nuclear magnetic resonance technology, giving rise to the development of MRI.
giraffe, genetics & genomics, CRISPR, gene editing, genome, physiology, hypertension, bone growth, techniques, mouse model
Genome Reveals Clues to Giraffes’ “Blatantly Strange” Body Shape
Amanda Heidt | Mar 19, 2021 | 5 min read
The physiological demands of that long neck get support from a gene involved in strengthening bones and blood vessels, researchers find after inserting the sequence in mice.
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Marine Biologist and Inventor John Kanwisher Dies
Nancy Kanwisher | May 21, 2020 | 7 min read
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist developed telemetry devices to study animals’ physiology in the wild.
Image of the Day: Drones Measure Whales
Emily Makowski | Oct 2, 2019 | 2 min read
Researchers estimate whale body mass from aerial images.
Caught in the Act
Devika G. Bansal | Nov 1, 2017 | 6 min read
Molecular probes for imaging in live animals
Tissue-Clearing Technique Works on Bone
Kerry Grens | Apr 26, 2017 | 1 min read
CLARITY made mouse bones transparent while preserving fluorescent labels so researchers could visualize tagged osteoprogenitors.
Bile Benefits
Ruth Williams | Nov 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Diverting the bile duct around a long stretch of the small intestine could treat obesity without cutting out chunks of the digestive tract.
Long and Rocky Roads
Mary Beth Aberlin | Nov 1, 2012 | 3 min read
From basic research to beneficial therapies
Model Liver
Richard P. Grant | Apr 1, 2011 | 2 min read
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