http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/4642 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/node/21135 <!--paging_filter--> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:14:43 -0500 404132862 21135 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/node/20538 <!--paging_filter--> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:55:45 -0500 404132862 20538 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/researchers-control-assembly-nanobristles-helical-clusters <!--paging_filter--><p>From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as useful as they are abundant in nature and manufacturing alike.<p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/researchers-control-assembly-nanobristles-helical-clusters">read more</a></p> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:10:16 -0500 404132862 20532 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/finding-ingenious-design-nature <!--paging_filter--><div id="storycontent"> <!--h4 STORY GOES HERE. Use > for story section heads. --> <p> “This,” Joanna Aizenberg says slyly, picking up a latticed tube from her desk in Pierce Hall, “is a glass house you can throw stones at.” </p> <p> The tube, tapered to a close at one end and festooned with a cluster of curious white fibers at the tip, resembles an upturned dog’s tail. It is, in fact, the skeleton of a deep-sea sponge, she reveals, made entirely out of a natural glass. The tube acts as a kind of high-rise apartment building for shrimp that live symbiotically in the sponge’s tissue. </p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/finding-ingenious-design-nature">read more</a></p> Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:42:56 -0500 404132862 20143 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu