Sentences with phrase «using jellyfish»

The researchers think the octopus might even be using the jellyfish tentacles to ensnare more prey.

The way the octopus had the jellyfish arms freely hanging out, while keeping the bell in its mouth provides evidence for the idea that the octopus uses jellyfish as living tools, says the team.

The team used the jellyfish's preference for sitting on solid surfaces to test whether quiescent Cassiopea had a delayed response to external stimuli.

They simply used the jellyfish gene, which is easily detected, to test whether inserting foreign genes into eggs (so - called germline gene alteration) can produce viable monkeys.

Not exact matches

My brothers and cousins and I used to spend Summer days pitching ourselves off of my grandfathers boating dock into the (jellyfish strewn) Chesapeake bay water.

Make this gorgeous colorful button jellyfish craft using ribbon, glue, board and some colorful buttons.

Using ethanol, we thus have created what can be classified as jellyfish chips that has a crispy texture and could be of potential gastronomic interest.

A rarely - seen deep - sea octopus eats zooplankton and a gelatinous, low - calorie food — jellyfish — and may use them as tools to catch food and feed through

«Jellyfishes are ancient organisms, which use a primitive predation mechanism based on generating feeding currents to bring the prey into contact with their bodies,» Acuña explains.

The cloning was the first step in using GFP as a tracer chemical in organisms other than jellyfish.

Diving among swarms of jellyfish, the pair used suspended dyes and a newly designed laser velocimeter to measure the movement of water around the jellyfish.

They slowly lifted the jellyfish off the bottom of the tank using a screen, then pulled it out from under the animal, leaving the jelly floating in the water.

To trace individual neurons, Jeff Lichtman of Harvard uses engineered mice whose DNA includes jellyfish genes so that the cells contain fluorescent proteins.

Called a medusoid, after the umbrella - shaped class of jellyfish it mimics, the silicone cyborg uses heart muscle cells from a rat to recreate the pumping motion of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia aurita.

«I could easily imagine medusoids used in large numbers to clean up oil spills in a similar manner to the way a jellyfish filters out its food,» he adds.

«But Myxozoa is definitely an animal because its evolutionary origin is shared with jellyfish, and we use species» ancestry to define them.

An artificial jellyfish that propels itself using rat heart muscle could aid cardiac drug discovery

Each tentacle is covered with stinging cells (cnidocytes) that can stun or kill other animals: most jellyfish use them to secure prey or as a defense mechanism.

Some, like jellyfish, have tentacles, while others, like bees and snakes use stingers and fangs to inject their prey with venomous toxins.

Visibly fluorescent proteins (FPs) from jellyfish and corals have revolutionized many areas of molecular and cell biology, but the use of FPs in intact animals, such as mice, has been handicapped by poor penetration of excitation light.

In Ireland and the UK, current best practices recommend using sea water and cold packs, which is not the correct action for treating these jellyfish stings as it induces significant increases in venom delivery, while rinsing with vinegar or Sting No More ® Spray did not.

This 3 - foot jellyfish uses four to seven strong tentacles to capture its prey but has no stinging cells.

«The anoxic conditions have been present in this area for hundreds of years, but the large numbers of jellyfish are a recent occurrence, so their tolerance of their stinging tentacles is presumably a more recent adaptation, as is their use of jellyfish as a food source,» Braithwaite says.

Laureates Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien used a colorful jellyfish protein to reveal the inner workings of cells

American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it being fuelled by hydrogen.

Dabiri studies biological fluid mechanics and wind energy — specifically how animals like jellyfish use water to move around.

Box jellyfish may lack a brain, but they still make use of two dozen eyes.

Now it seems that some of these eyes serve a surprising purpose: helping the jellyfish to navigate using landmarks above the water.

[Engineer Helene Steiner] has developed a bio-pixel display that can play games such as Tetris, Snake or Pong using the protein that makes jellyfish glow

The authors refer to their hypothesis as differential partitioning - environmental buffering, and suggest that partitioning cells into different fates according to prevailing conditions could be a strategy used by many other types of cell coalitions — whether microbial communities, humans, trees, or jellyfish.

In this 2009 study, the same jellyfish DNA injection was used, but for different purposes.

The jellyfish has given off its evening shine for centuries, but in the early 1990s, scientists developed a way to use GFP in biological studies.

Researchers removed the gene for GFP from jellyfish, cloned it, and introduced it into the cells of the bacterium E. coli and in C. elegans, a soil nematode widely used as a biological model.

The most commonly used fluorescent protein is green fluorescent protein (GFP), which was isolated first from jellyfish.

The terms fish collagen and marine collagen are often used interchangeably, but check your ingredients for collagen sourced from jellyfish or shellfish — these are not ideal, particularly if you have a shellfish allergy.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing that the American government can use in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played by Ron Perlman, by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and threatens to kill everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played by Rupert Grint, by the way) proposes that they all head off to film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run by an egotistical dolt who can't understand why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.

Essentially a jungle - peril drama about a couple on the run, that film used its Central American locations and its very modest budget to economical effect — and was astutely sparing with shots of its titular creatures, eerie rather than frightening phenomena that resembled ethereal stilt - walking jellyfish.

Lee uses the 3 - D effects with gentle sophistication: flying fish, glowing jellyfish, an island of meerkats, a humpback whale swathed in plankton — all are luminously rendered.

Review jellyfish related words with your students using this fun word search puzzle.

Young students can practice their alphabetizing skills while reviewing jellyfish terminology using this alphabet activity.

The easy - to - use, conveniently sized nylon packets offer superior filtration in the most advanced marine, reef and / or jellyfish aquariums.

It is capable of handling the toughest, dirtiest aquariums, yet gentle enough to be used in air - driven, desktop jellyfish aquariums.

A gene for green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish, Aequorea Victoria, has been inserted into the cats» DNA and is used as a marker for cells carrying a second gene which confers resistance to the feline version of the AIDS virus, the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV).

People are recommended to only swim at patrolled beaches inside a stinger net (note that irukandji jellyfish can get through a stinger net, so ensure that area has been cleared for use prior to swimming).

Box jellyfish inhabit the waters just off the beach at this time of the year, so swimmers use the purpose built lagoon instead.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Secrets of the Deep transforms the environment to the deepest reaches of the ocean floor, complete with jellyfish and sharks swimming around, and a miniature submersible that matches the one used in the pinball machine.

Using bright and vivid colours such as oranges, reds and purples, every shape from the sea has been made: shells, coral, starfish and jellyfish.

But a group of Japanese high school students have found a use for the giant jellyfish: caramel candy mixed with ground up Nomura's jellyfish powder.

Another jellyfish - derived product takes advantage of the jellies» fluorescent protein, and could be used to power medical devices in the future.