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| | | Natural Products and Biomaterials |
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| | Introduction | | | | Research in this category includes fundamental research on marine natural products and basic biological and pharmacological studies relevant to discovery and production of biochemicals with properties making them of potential use in medicine, agriculture, and other industrial uses. An exciting new area of research in this field includes the investigation of extremophiles, micro-organisms existing and adapting to extreme environments. | | | | |
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| Ocean Sponge Has Best Fiber Optics
by VIKRAM C. SUNDAR, ANDREW D. YABLON, JOHN L. GRAZUL, MICHA ILAN & JOANNA AIZENBERG, Nature 21 August 2003 | |
| | Modern technology cannot yet compete with some of the sophisticated optical systems possessed by biological organisms. Here we show that the spicules of the deep-sea 'glass' sponge Euplectella have remarkable fibre-optical properties, which are surprisingly similar to those of commercial telecommunication fibres — except that the spicules themselves are formed under normal ambient conditions and have some technological advantages over man-made versions. | |
Read more at http://www.nature.com/cg ... a_fs.html.
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