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Stuck to rocks, shells, and piers in oceans around the world is a strange little creature called a sea squirt.
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Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
Previously, researchers had mapped parts of the much smaller brains of a larval marine worm (78 neurons), a larval sea squirt (177 neurons) and an adult roundworm (302 neurons).
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
It’s widely understood that CBD and the Protocol only pertain to physical materials — microbes, plants, compounds from a sea squirt — not genetic sequences.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
Proud members of the sea squirt family, these amorphous blobs are essentially little water pumps, pumping water in and out of the bodies and extracting nutrients along the way.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 10 June 2024
The compound is produced by bacteria that live on the immobile sea squirt, helping defend it against other organisms.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
The potential drug is released by a sea squirt that lives on the roots of mangrove trees in the Caribbean.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
Most sea squirts start their lives with similar appearances to tadpoles and can move around.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
Until now, scientists had only made this sort of map, called a connectome, for the brains of three organisms: two types of worm and a sea squirt larva.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
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Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
Previously, researchers had mapped parts of the much smaller brains of a larval marine worm (78 neurons), a larval sea squirt (177 neurons) and an adult roundworm (302 neurons).
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
It’s widely understood that CBD and the Protocol only pertain to physical materials — microbes, plants, compounds from a sea squirt — not genetic sequences.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
Proud members of the sea squirt family, these amorphous blobs are essentially little water pumps, pumping water in and out of the bodies and extracting nutrients along the way.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 10 June 2024
The compound is produced by bacteria that live on the immobile sea squirt, helping defend it against other organisms.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
The potential drug is released by a sea squirt that lives on the roots of mangrove trees in the Caribbean.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
Most sea squirts start their lives with similar appearances to tadpoles and can move around.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
Until now, scientists had only made this sort of map, called a connectome, for the brains of three organisms: two types of worm and a sea squirt larva.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
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“Sea squirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20squirt. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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