A checkered periwinkle marine snail, similar to these sitka periwinkles, was found growing inside an abscess on an 11-year-old Southern California boy’s arm. Emily Grason University of ...

A checkered periwinkle marine snail, similar to these sitka periwinkles, was found growing inside an abscess on an 11-year-old Southern California boy’s arm. Emily Grason University of ...

A checkered periwinkle marine snail, similar to these sitka periwinkles, was found growing inside an abscess on an 11-year-old Southern California boy’s arm. Emily Grason University of ...

A scraped elbow may not seem like an unusual injury, but for one 11-year-old boy in California, his health took an odd turn after he fell and hurt his left elbow while exploring a tide pool.

Doctors in Los Angeles discovered a live checkered periwinkle marine snail, similar to the one seen here, inside an 11-year-old boy's skin abscess about a week after he scraped his elbow in a tide ...

The periwinkle is the most common marine snail on our beaches. This mollusk was probably introduced on the North Atlantic coast by rock ballast dumped from mid-19th century sailing ships.

There is one local snail that I would bet everyone who lives in coastal New England knows and loves: the common periwinkle. What young person hasn’t picked up a periwinkle from the beach and ...

There is one local snail that I would bet everyone who lives in coastal New England knows and loves: the common periwinkle. What young person hasn’t picked up a periwinkle from the beach and ...

An 11-year-old boy in Los Angeles discovered a snail had been living inside of his elbow for a whole week. According to a recent article published in the medical journal BMJ Case, the boy cut his ...

In one longterm study, Kingston has focused her students’ attention on the rough periwinkle, a common snail found clinging to rocks up and down Maine’s shoreline. This project could open a window into ...

Structural Adaptation of a Protein to Increased Metal Stress: NMR Structure of a Marine Snail Metallothionein with an Additional Domain. Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 2017; DOI: 10. ...