Tag: "tubes" at biology news
Probing biology's dark matter
...y days of electronics with all of those big vacuum
tubes and wires" Next came the transistor and finally the silicon chip, which dramatically revolutionized computers and modern electronics. Microfluidics is following the track of silicon chips and promises to revolutionize biology in the same manner. The...
X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
...ey did in the late Paleozoic, then longer tracheal
tubes can work. This would allow larger-sized insectseve...d at the APS to examine the dimensions of tracheal
tubes in four beetle species, ranging in body mass by a factor of 1,000. Overall, they found that larger...
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