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Regrowth of Zebrafish's Tail Fin may Offer Clues for Treating Human Injuries

If a zebrafish loses a chunk of its tail fin, it’ll grow back within a week. //Like lizards, newts, and frogs, a zebrafish can replace surprisingly complex body parts. A tail fin, for example, has many different types of cells and is a very intricate structure. It is the fish version of an arm or l...

Heat Sinks Market to Reach $2.64 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

... Extruded Heat Sinks represent the largest segment in 2009, while Folded fin Heat Sinks represent the fastest growing segment. 'Computers' is the large... product segments including Metal Extruded, Stamped, Bonded Fin, and Folded fin Heat Sinks. The markets are also analyzed for key end use market segments i...

The New Condom That Breaks - - - the Mold.

...w artful condom shapes are definitely the new trend," says Osterberg. "Intellx has a leg-up on the condom market, and now with the Dolphin(TM) - - a fin too! Fun to look at, and even more fun to use, our shaped condoms help uplift the overall image of condoms like never before," states Osterberg. Int...

AutoImmune Inc. Reports 2008 First Quarter Financial Results

...m both Futurebiotics LLC and The Shopping Channel in Canada." AutoImmune consolidates Colloral LLC for financial reporting purposes in accordance with fin 46 "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities." AutoImmune has exclusively licensed certain of its intellectual property rights to BioMS Medical C...

Celebrity Chefs and America's Restaurants Cook for the Cure This Mother's Day

...he time of press include: A.O.C. (Los Angeles, CA) Atlantic Grill (New York, NY) Border Grill (Santa Monica, CA) Blue fin (New York, NY) Ciudad (Los Angeles, CA) Blue Water Grill (New York, NY) Lucques (Los Angeles, CA) Isabella's (New Y...

Genzyme Delivers Strong Fourth Quarter to Conclude Outstanding Year

... Related Expense fin 46 As Reported Income Statement Classificat...des the impact of amortization, one-time events, fin 46, FAS123 expense and EITF 04-08. **Non-GAAP exc...ludes the impact of amortization, one-time events, fin 46, FAS123 expense and EITF 04-08. ***WTD Avera...

Rural/Metro Announces Results for Fiscal 2008 Second Quarter

...-cash operating activities: Increase in accumulated deficit, other liabilities and decrease in deferred income taxes upon adoption of fin 48 $12,826 $ - Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities: Property and equipment...

DRAXIS Health Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End Results

...retation # 48 "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes" ("FIN 48"). fin 48 prescribes a minimum recognition threshold that a tax position is r...n interim periods, disclosure and transition matters. The adoption of fin 48 did not impact the Company's consolidated financial position, resul...

Edwards Lifesciences Reports Strong Fourth Quarter Sales

...erpretation No. 48, "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109" ("FIN 48"). The adoption of fin 48 increased the January 1, 2007 balance of retained earnings by $1.7 million. EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION Non-GAAP Financial Informat...

Rural/Metro Announces Results for Fiscal 2008 First Quarter; Fiscal 2007 Fourth Quarter and Full Year

...rease included $0.8 million in professional fees related to the adoption of fin 48 for tax purposes and $0.7 million in legal, audit and Sarbanes-Oxley fee...d income taxes and increase in accrued liabilities upon adoption of fin 48 $12,826 $- Supplemental disclosure of non-cash...

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Triple threat: World fin trade may harvest up to 73 million sharks per year

The first real-data study of sharks harvested for their valuable fins estimates as few as 26 million and as many as 73 million sharks are killed each year worldwide--three times higher than was reported originally by the United Nations, according to a paper published as the cover story in the Octob...

The faster they come

...her damage to the tail and fins may affect the social position of a given individual, and found that, indeed, aggressive behaviours tend to decline as fin damage sustained in fights accumulates. In other words: if a male has to fight too often to maintain his dominant status, he will probably end up losi...

'Bycatch' whaling a growing threat to coastal whales

... said, reportedly seizing 50 tons of minke whale meat. Other protected species of large whales detected in market surveys include humpbacks whales, fin whales, Bryde's whales and critically endangered western gray whales. The entanglement and death of western or Asian gray whales is of particular conc...

Embryology study offers clues to birth defects

... not hindlimb development. In zebrafish, the forelimb (pectoral fin) is also missing in retinoic acid-deficient embryos, but they were able to rescue fin development by treating such embryos with a drug that reduces fibroblast growth factor activity, thus supporting the hypothesis that retinoic acid nor...

UF scientist tapped by Howard Hughes Medical Institute to pursue 'best ideas'

...ublished in Nature in 1999 and 2002. Since arriving at UF in 2003, Cohn's group has discovered the evolutionary origin of the genetic program for fin development, shown how this program was modified to form fingers and toes, and identified the molecular basis for the loss of legs during whale evolut...

Lohafex provides new insights on plankton ecology

...g copepods. The dominant species Themisto gaudichaudii plays an important role in the food web of the Southern Ocean. It is the main food of squid and fin whales in the south-western Atlantic. A second fertilization of the patch after 3 weeks had no further effect on the phytoplankton indicating that...

Research links evolution of fins and limbs with that of gills

...ic skates (a living relative of sharks that has gill rays) responds to treatment with the vitamin A derivative retinoic acid in the same way a limb or fin skeleton does: by making a mirror image duplicate of the structure as the embryo develops. According to the researchers, the genetic circuitry that pa...

UNH researchers studying spiny dogfish, Gulf of Maine's mini shark

...were recorded, blood samples were taken and dorsal fin spines, vertebrae and reproductive organs were bro... on otoliths (inner ear bones), dorsal or pectoral fin spines. The second dorsal fin spine was previously used to identify the ages of ...

Older killer whales make the best mothers

...aid, "During annual photographic surveys, nearly every individual in the population has been recorded. Each animal has unique pigmentation, scars, and fin shapes, allowing us to track the survival and reproductive performance of each female over time". The authors aimed to investigate what benefits k...

UBC researcher reveals humpback whales' dining habits -- and costs

... Humpbacks belong to a group of whales called rorquals that includes the fin whale and the blue whale, the largest animal that has ever lived. Character...udies, Goldbogen now plans to compare lunge-feeding performance among blue, fin and humpback whales to determine whether the energy cost of a lunge is high...

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BioSpecifics to Present at the 9th Annual Healthcare Conference of Acumen Bio Fin Rodman Renshaw LLC

LYNBROOK, N.Y., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioSpecifics Technologies Corp. (Pink Sheets: BSTC) today announced that Mr. Thomas Wegman, President, will present an overview of the company and it's product pipeline at the 9th Annual Healthcare Conference of Acumen Bio Fin Rodman Renshaw LL...

AutoImmune Inc. Reports 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results

...ur licensee, Bronson Laboratories, LLC remains encouraging." AutoImmune consolidates Colloral LLC for financial reporting purposes in accordance with fin 46R "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities." AutoImmune has exclusively licensed certain of its intellectual property rights pertaining t...

AutoImmune Inc. Reports 2009 First Quarter Financial Results

...ur licensee, Bronson Laboratories, LLC remains encouraging." AutoImmune consolidates Colloral LLC for financial reporting purposes in accordance with fin 46R "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities." AutoImmune has exclusively licensed certain of its intellectual property rights to BioMS Medic...

AutoImmune Inc. Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results

...ugh our licensee, Bronson Laboratories, LLC is encouraging." AutoImmune consolidates Colloral LLC for financial reporting purposes in accordance with fin 46R "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities." AutoImmune has exclusively licensed certain of its intellectual property rights to BioMS Medic...

AutoImmune Inc. Reports 2008 Third Quarter Financial Results

...hird quarter were unchanged from the same period prior year." AutoImmune consolidates Colloral LLC for financial reporting purposes in accordance with fin 46 "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities." AutoImmune has exclusively licensed certain of its intellectual property rights to BioMS Medical C...

AutoImmune Inc. Reports 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results

...Colloral LLC met our expectations during the second quarter." AutoImmune consolidates Colloral LLC for financial reporting purposes in accordance with fin 46 "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities." AutoImmune has exclusively licensed certain of its intellectual property rights to BioMS Medical C...

AutoImmune Inc. Reports 2007 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results

...eting through The Shopping Channel in Canada is encouraging." AutoImmune consolidates Colloral LLC for financial reporting purposes in accordance with fin 46 "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities." AutoImmune has exclusively licensed certain of its intellectual property rights to BioMS Medical C...

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fin in Biological Dictionary

Short arm

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Dorsal

...ganism ... A dorsal consonant, in linguistics. The medial ... dorsal fin n. The main fin located on the back of fishes and certain marine mammals. ... Some animals...

Caudal

...o the belly, but caudal to the eyes. ... (Redirected from Caudal fin) Jump to: navigation, search ... Protocercal means that the caudal fin extends around the vertebral column, ... Definition of caudal from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Wo...