Even more significant for the optimization of upwind speed is twist: the vertical shape of the leech. It’s been said that the only reason to have a front of a main is to be able to attach the leech ...
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Leech carboxypeptidase inhibitor (LCI) is a novel protein inhibitor present in the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis. The structures of LCI free and bound to carboxypeptidase A2 (CPA2)have been ...
The CIC biomaGUNE Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials has developed pulmonary surfactant nanoparticles (the blend of lipids and proteins that lines the alveoli and enables breathing), ...
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When Habanero, the endangered loggerhead sea turtle was found off the coast of Witsand, South Africa last February, things were looking bleak. He was found with thousands of leeches and their eggs ...
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Leeches are famous for drinking blood – and being used in medicine. But can these slippery little vampires ever be deadly?