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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

One of the reactor’s 30 rodlike, uranium-filled fuel elements was not properly latched into place, according to an investigation.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 14, 2023

Very slowly, at a rate of roughly a hundredth of an inch per second, rodlike microfibers of ice grew from the tip of the needle.

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