Deadly cone snails, usually found on the Great Barrier Reef, have been reared in a laboratory aquarium uncovering a potential treasure trove of new venoms for drug development. Cone snails have been ...

Nearly a century after insulin was discovered, an international team of researchers including University of Utah Health scientists report that they have developed the world's smallest, fully ...

Vision begins in the retina at the rod and cone photoreceptors, which are sensory neurons with specialized visual pigments for capturing light quanta. Most mammals have one type of rod and two types ...

A marine cone snail uses the "taser and tether" hunting strategy. Credit: Helena Safavi Scientists already know that the venom of cone snails, which prowl the ocean floor for a fish dinner, contains ...

Rod cells help us see in dim or dark light, and cone cells help us see bright light and color. The research team was interested in how other genes that are active in the developing retina can act to ...

Metso’s innovative research and development has taken their line of cone crushers to the next level. With the Nordberg MP®1250, Metso is providing up to 30% increase in capacity as a result of ...

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) signaling promote the pathology of many human diseases. Loss-of-function variants of the UPR regulator Activating Transcription ...