Tortoises are famed for their longevity. The oldest living land animal is a 190-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa) named Jonathan. The tortoise lives on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean after having been brought there by people from the Se...
The National Biscuit Company,later Nabisco, was formed in 1898 with the merger of more than 100 bakeries belonging to the New York Biscuit Co. and the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Co. Over the years, Nabisco has made Oreo Cookies, Ritz Crackers, Barnum’s Animal Crackers, Wheat Thins, ...
We here report a novel family of cystine knot peptides from nemertean worms, with potent activity on voltage-gated sodium channels. These toxins, named the α-nemertides, were discovered in the epidermal mucus of Lineus longissimus, the ‘bootlace worm’ known as the longest animal on earth....
For genes with three or more introns, the same two subgroups as in the previous analyses were tested – genes with the longest intron in the 1stversus 2ndor 3rdtertile. Intersections between the results in individual species showed that the 1sttertile group is most generally characterized by the...
Microsoft’s MSN Messenger was launched in 1999to rival AOL’s AIM service. If you were one of the cool kids using MSN Messenger, you carefully selected your font style and color and used emoticons in your name and status. Despite the decade and a half of memories, it was shut down in...