“I would swim in the oceans in Hawaii and did an early morning swim and coming in through the coral and was hit by something that I could not see what it was. It was a fiery feeling and fought to get back to shore. As a biochemist, I was intensely interested in this thing […]

If there were expected encounters with jellyfish, we would most definitely want Dr. Angel Yanagihara on our escort boat. The woman knows jellyfish like Michael Oram knows navigation in the English Channel. Dr. Yanagihara is on her way to Cuba now from Honolulu to Cuba in order to participate on Diana Nyad’s attempt across the

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In a summit hosted by Diana Nyad, world renown jellyfish expert Dr. Angel Yanagihara of the Pacific Cnidaria Research Lab and the Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology in the Pacific Biosciences Research Center in Honolulu, Hawaii explains why EpiPens® (epinephrine) are not her recommended response when ocean swimmers go into

Dr. Angel Yanagihara of the Pacific Cnidaria Research Lab and the Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology in the Pacific Biosciences Research Center in Honolulu, Hawaii shared her extensive knowledge of some of the most venomous creatures in the world: Box jellies have chemo-, mechano- and neutrally activated stinging cells firing apparati. If the animal hunts and