Kangas joined Nightly Business Report in 1979; in 2003, his Stocks in the News segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2005, he won a Suncoast Chapter Silver Circle Award.
What Is a Malpighian Tubule? Malpighian tubules are organs within insects that excrete solid waste. Larvae of certain species of beetles use Malpighian tubules to produce silk.
1. nephron-any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney. uriniferous tubule. tubule-a small tube. malpighian body, malpighian corpuscle, renal corpuscle-the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron.ephron-any of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney. uriniferous tubule. tubule-a small tube. malpighian body, malpighian corpuscle, renal corpuscle-the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron.