The tube-dwelling anemone is an ancient sea creature that resembles a prehistoric ... in the mitochondria of the jellyfish, but the linear structure combined with the variation in size and number ...

Scientists show that in a simple, brainless sea anemone, the same genes that control ... In many animals, the brain is located in a specific structure, the head, together with sensory organs ...

Starlet sea anemones have found a better way ... humans and the rest of the animal kingdom tend to stick to the same body structure after they mature. But cnidarians are famously adaptable.

A new look at the starlet sea anemone’s stinger gets right to the ... electron microscopy to reconstruct their three-dimensional structure. The work reveals the precise, step-by-step mechanics ...

There are thousands of different species of sea anemones in the ocean with some living as far deep as 32,000 feet. Anemones are marine invertebrates that are closely related to jellyfish.

Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) produced by sea anemones, most notably the actinoporins ... and lipid components in stabilising the final pore structure [3]. In parallel, detailed structural analyses ...

Understanding sea anemones’ exceptional healing abilities ... but it’s a very useful step in looking at restoring the structure and function of these damaged cells,” says Lavinia Sheets ...

stephensoni venom is a complex cocktail of toxins that is found in stinging cells throughout the sea anemone’s structure,” Ms Ashwood said. “Analysis of the sea anemone’s three major ...

Scientists from the University of Vienna studied the genome of the scarlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) in an attempt to undercover its immortal abilities. According to a new study ...

Little is known about Iosactis vagabunda, a tentacled deep-sea anemone that resides on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, a seabed off the coast of Ireland. But thanks to cameras built to withstand the ...

These are found within the cochlea, a fluid-filled structure of the inner ear ... shield' to protect itself It turns out that sea anemones have similar hair cells on their tentacles, which ...