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"The VSD domain responds to the change in voltage by pushing its rodlike S4 helix inwards. This clears the way for ion exchange by SLC9C1, ultimately initiating sperm motility," says David Drew.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

Typically, operators replace the oldest four of 30 rodlike fuel elements and rearrange the others.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2021

They showed that the ice could be bent like a cooked noodle into almost complete circles before returning, unchanged, to its original rodlike shape.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021

Typically the end of the pectoral fin skeleton contains small bones called radials that support the rodlike fin rays.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2020

The blood was sealed into thin, rodlike vials in Pena’s laboratory at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third-largest city.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann