Life Lines
With Halloween quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to take some time to appreciate bats. Amazing animals!
A still shot from the 3D-IsoView microscope shows neural activity within a Drosophila larva detected with fluorescent indicators. Image courtesy of Keller Lab, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus A new kind of three-dimensional technology, called IsoView, allows researchers to view biological processes within nontransparent animals that are rather large...
Image of Cricetomys gambianus from Wikipedia. In a newly published study from Physiological Reports, researchers were interested in learning more about the basic physiology of African giant rats (Cricetomys gambianus). According to the study, heart rate is one of several “physiological constants” that offer a clue into how an animal might interact with...
The Tennessee Physiological Society held their annual conference on October 9th at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Here are highlights from the meeting: Have you ever heard of “dry needling”? It is a treatment used by some physical therapists that is designed to help alleviate muscle pain by inserting small needles into trigger points. Researchers...
Image from Wikimedia Commons Researchers from La Trobe University and Max Planck Institute for Ornithology recorded young crocodiles and found that while the animals typically sleep with both eyes closed, in the morning hours they will sometimes open one eye periodically. If they placed another crocodile in the tank or stood nearby however, the animal...