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...experiments were carried out in Biewener??s lab at the Concord Field Station, a Harvard research facility in Bedford, Mass...
Some would call it a work space; others, a zoo. Charles P. Lyman Professor of Biology Andrew Biewener??s office is a museum of comparative zoology, housing a variety of emus, cockatiels and wallabies. But that doesn’t mean this au courant researcher is any less serious than his Harvard Medical School colleagues. While his peers are looking for the next medical miracle, Biewener is studying how animals move...
...until this point, scientists have only studied the way dogs move, for example, on a treadmill at a steady speed. “That’s not really realistic,” says Monica Daley, a fourth-year graduate student and Biewener??s advisee. The dog’s steady movement on a treadmill is completely different from its unsteady locomotion in nature—the patterns Biewener is really interested...
There is little precedent for Biewener??s research. “We appreciate the aesthetic movement of a bird that’s flying, it’s athletic and beautiful,” Biewener says. But before him, few had thought about the biology, mechanics and engineering behind the fluid movement and none had done the extensive research Biewener has crossing these fields’ boundaries. “It is a challenge of understanding biological aspects of life as it exists,” says Biewener...
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