It was built at the initiative of William Hornby, then governor of Bombay, and over the next few decades was followed by the construction of causeways to link the seven islets separated by sea and swamp.
The increase in the level of miR-34a in the islets of ageing rats is probably linked to the activation of p53 signalling.
The islets are claimed by Beijing, Tokyo and Taipei.
Or that colonies of egrets, ibises and herons crowd the islets by Rikers Island.
I love to snorkel here and regularly stalk octopuses and squid among the islets offshore.
Until a South Korean company recently donated desalinization equipment, the islets had no reliable water supply.
Occasionally, the islets would function for a few weeks, sometimes longer.
Conjugation of polyethylene glycol (PEG) to the surface of Langerhans islets, islet PEGylation, is another novel approach for immunoprotection of the islets (Panza et al. 2000; Scott and Chen 2004).
The islets continued secreting insulin after encapsulation.
This crosslinking forms a PEG capsule around the islets.
