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...wouldn't want to wear a necktie made of spider silk anyway," laughs zoologist John Gosline of the University of British Columbia. Reason: when wet, spider silk contracts 50%, a property that, in a necktie at least, might prove decidedly unpleasant on damp days. Armed with the tools of molecular biology, however, scientists can learn how spiders construct their silk and then apply those lessons to the design of other fibers. "After all," says Gosline, "we do not aim to copy nature directly, but to adapt her designs and processes to our own purposes...
Some days we draw rice. Most days we draw blanks. Other days ideas just boil over in our brains during lecture, as molecular orbital theory and all that other chem crap is left far behind as new storylines spew forth as doodles onto notebook paper. Our conversations start to pattern themselves after the set-up and punchline rhthym of the strip. We often fight over the direction things should take, and have nasty things to say about each other...
...Harvard student panelists are Howard Y. Chang '94, co-president of the Harvard College Forum: Samantha F. Butts '94, and Tamarra L. Cadd, a fourth-year graduate student at the microbiology and molecular genetics department of Harvard Medical School...
Engelman, the acting dean whom Brodhead is replacing, is a senior member and former chair of Yale's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. Engelman accepted the temporary position after the resignation of the previous dean, Donald Kagan...
Associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology Judith K. Gwathmey and colleagues at the school's cardiovascular diseases laboratories attribute heart failure to decreased response to stimulation rather than to an impaired ability to contract, the previously accepted cause...