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Until the University decides how to proceed in Allston, the departments slated to move into the Science Complex in July 2011—the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard Medical School’s Department of Systems Biology, and the Wyss Institute for bioengineering—have been left scrambling to find temporary solutions at the school level with little guidance from central administration...
Biomimicry might be an unfamiliar field to many undergraduates, but in 2008 it was the beneficiary of the largest gift in the University’s history, when Business School graduate Hansjörg Wyss gave $125 million to found the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The institute seeks to “discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things...[to] revolutionize healthcare and create a more sustainable world,” according to its Web site...
Benyus said she hoped scientists at places like the Wyss Institute would keep striving to learn more from nature...
...Laboratory’s partners include the American Repertory Theater, the Wyss Institute, and the Harvard Initiative for Global Health...
Donald E. Ingber, the director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, recalled how a sculpture he saw in his art class led him to a realization about biological cells...