Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells in mollusks using blastomere isolation and culture techniques alongside ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) --Limpets can make their damaged shells good as new using biological materials derived from within. When David Taylor, a professor of materials engineering at Trinity College Dublin, ...

I recently received an email from a reader describing a shell he found washed up on a wintery beach, something he grew up calling a ‘half deck’ - as in, he clarified, a boat. He had included a photo ...

New research from bioengineers paints a surprisingly complex picture of limpets - the little seashore creatures that are ubiquitous on rocky patches of beaches in many parts of the world. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A comparison of the safety factors of tropical and temperate limpet shells in the eastern Pacific yielded two results of significance. A ...

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 51, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 466-473 (8 pages) Synopsis The endemic Hawaiian limpets (Cellana exarata, Cellana sandwicensis, and Cellana talcosa), reside ...