Category: Link of the Month

Our aging ears (Image downloaded from SouthWestern Medical Center website). Over the course of our life and as we get older, the structures undergo considerable change. One aspect of such a change is that the eardrum (figure above) thickens and affects our hearing. So older people cannot hear as well as the younger ones. Let us…Continue Reading Did you hear that? Our aging ears

This month’s science link is to UA Herbarium’s effort to create the convolvulaceae pollen atlas: https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/projects/pollen_atlas Check out the fantastic effort to compile images of family from this important family. Pollen features are an important tool for taxonomical classification. However, many of these valuable images remain in disparate unpublished sources. The atlas project hopes to…Continue Reading UA involved in creating convulvaceae pollen atlas

http://pollennetwork.org/content/annual-pollen-research-coordination-ne……Continue Reading 2015 Pollen RCN meeting

Time-lapse movie of drosophila embryonic development Video and text created by Jean-Baptiste Boule, Matthieu Coppey, and Thomas G of www.princeton.edu and posted in Google on May 13, 2006. Recent advances in microscopy and in fluorescence labeling of proteins allow the observation of complex biological processes in living organisms. This movie shows the early stages of embryonic development…Continue Reading Link of the Month (June 12)