speedball
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speed·ball
/ ˈspēdˌbôl/
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n. inf.
a mixture of cocaine and heroin.
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United States: Porifera Seeks to Upturn Carbon Capture & Desalination.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 11/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...of Hayward, Calif.-based startup Porifera, a spinoff from the Lawrence Livermore...technology. Since its founding last year, Porifera has been focusing on applications using...week, the Livermore lab announced that Porifera has secured an exclusive license for...
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United States: Porifera snags carbon nanotube license for desal.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 11/18/2009; 700+ words
; Byline: deepak03 Porifera is looking to take new carbon nanotube...salt from water. Founded in 2008, Porifera is developing next-generation membranes...nanotubes for water desalination. Porifera says its membranes have vastly superior...
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Cell death in Porifera: molecular players in the game of apoptotic cell death in living fossils (1).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Zoology; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...from nematode to man. Sponges (phylum Porifera) are characterized by a remarkable regeneration...emerged from studies of apoptosis in Porifera. Resume: L'apoptose est la manifestation...nematodes aux humains. Les eponges (phylum Porifera) se caracterisent par une capacite remarquable...
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United States: Livermore Lab inks license with Hayward s Porifera Inc.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 11/14/2009; 575 words
; ...technology useful for desalination to Porifera Inc. of Hayward. This is an exclusive...Bakajin, the chief technology officer of Porifera, used to work at Livermore Lab, where...Jennifer Klare, scientists who work for Porifera, thought up some of the new uses for...
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Molecular evolution of rDNA in early diverging Metazoa: First comparative analysis and phylogenetic application of complete SSU rRNA secondary structures in Porifera.(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology; 2/27/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...for early metazoan evolution is Phylum Porifera (sponges), in which the relationships...representatives of the main lineages of Phylum Porifera, and evaluated how secondary structure...considered all available SSU rRNA sequences of Porifera, inferred their secondary structures...
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The distribution and habitat preferences of freshwater sponges (Porifera) in four southern Lake Michigan harbors
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Three species of freshwater sponges (Porifera): Spongilla lacustris (Linneaus...and taxonomy of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillidae) in North America has...1:77-89. FROST, T. M. 1991. Porifera, p. 95-124. In:J. H. Thorp and...
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United States : Carbon nanotube technology for desalination is exclusively licensed to Porifera.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 11/26/2009; 682 words
; ...applied to other liquid based separations. Porifera is developing membranes with vastly superior...applications. The membranes developed by Porifera would transfer the two gases at a different...Bakajin, chief technology officer at Porifera said: We ve known about the possibilities...
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Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2002; ; 388 words
; Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea. (4th Ed.). Douglas Grant Smith. 2001...been thoroughly updated and revised. Chapters include the Porifera, Cividaria, Platyhelminthes, Rotifers, Nemertea, Gastrotricha...
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A New North Pacific Heterochone Transferred from Aphrocallistes (Porifera: Hexactinellida).
Magazine article from: Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences); 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...During an ongoing survey of California collections by myself and coworkers, with the aim of producing an updated guide to the Porifera of California, we encountered a hexactinellid sponge from southern California unknown to the region (last summarized by de...
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Biology of the Porifera: cell culture (1,2,3).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Zoology; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Abstract: The discovery that dissociated sponge cells will reaggregate to form a functional organism was the basis for the establishment of sponge cell cultures that have been used as a model for the study of fundamental processes in developmental biology and immunology. More recent is the
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Porifera
Book article from: Animal Sciences
Porifera The phylum Porifera contains all the species of sponges. Phylogenetically, Porifera is most closely related to Protista, making it the first animal phylum to have evolved to be multicellular. This also makes Porifera the simplest in...
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Animalia
Book article from: Biology
...the Cambrian. The most primitive animal group is the phylum Porifera, the sponges. The remaining animal groups can be divided...Cnidarian; Echinoderm; Mollusk; Nematode; Platyhelminthes; Porifera; Protein Structure; Tunicate Tanya A. Dewey Bibliography...
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Body Cavities
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...phyla are known as the eucoelomates . The Acoelomate Phyla The most primitive animal phylum is that of the sponges (phylum Porifera). Sponges have a single body cavity known as the spongocoel . The spongocoel is critical to the food gathering strategy of...
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Cambrian Explosion
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...multicellular life has existed on Earth (about 600 million years). In addition to the phyla that are still present today (phyla Porifera [sponges], Cnidaria [jellyfish], Platyhelminthes [flatworms], Nematoda [nematode worms], Molluska [clams], Annelida...
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Cnidaria
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...symmetric body plans that are found in most other animal phyla. Although cnidarians are more advanced than sponges (phylum Porifera) in that they possess distinct tissue layers, they lack many of the features of more advanced animal phyla, such as internal...
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