Sentences with phrase «tadpoles whose»

The technique sheds light (literally) on how transplanted tissue interacts with the nervous system — only the tadpoles whose transplanted eyes connected to their spinal cord, rather than their gut, seemed to be able to see.

Only tadpoles whose transplanted eyes formed connections with their spinal cord managed to learn; eyes that instead connected to the gut were apparently useless.

Not exact matches

The study's lead author, Michael Levin, and his colleague Douglas Blackiston took tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) whose eyes had been surgically removed and transplanted «donor» eyeballs — one per tadpole — along various points on the back.

Many don budding crystals painted bright blue or a slimy green, another «cup» whose interior is painted with squiggly, eye - ball tadpoles, is filled with black painted fingers covered in tiny bugs.