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Forget the Biology labs. First-year Kristofer J. Thiessen will do his experimenting in space, thank you very much...
...Thiessen, a resident of Hurlbutt Hall, will launch his experiments with protein crystals on the Space Shuttle Endeavor flight STS-67, scheduled for liftoff on March...
...Thiessen, who is a Crimson editor, has been working since 1991 to perfect a method of growing protein crystals in agarose gels, similar in texture to Jello...
Growing the crystals on Earth is difficult for researchers because gravity impedes the formation of perfect crystals, according to Thiessen. But in space, scientists can grow crystals without the adverse affects of gravity...
Perfect crystals will still be hard to grow in space because of the vibrations sustained by the spaceship during its return to Earth. But Thiessen theorizes that he will be able to overcome this problem by using a lowconcentration solution of agarose...