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		<title>Wired News: Engineers Make Like a Tree</title>
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Wired News: Engineers Make Like a Tree.
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		<title>Seasonal variation in mussel byssal thread mechanics</title>
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Mussels are not attached as firmly in the fall as in the spring. This paper shows that the problem is not a gradual decrease in the number of byssal threads but that the threads themselves are of poorer quality later in the year.&#160; 
JEB Abstract
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		<title>World&#8217;s Strongest Glue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll check into this soon, but glue from bacteria seems pretty biomimetic.&#160; Apparently they use it to stick to rocks.
Yahoo! News.
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		<title>An insect army and a commentary on Canadian vs US funding models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DARPA&#8217;s latest call for proposals merited an interesting article in the Toronto Star.&#160; The advanced projects agency has requested labs to submit research plans that will lead to :

the controlled arrival of an insect within five metres of a specified target located 100 metres away. It must then remain stationary indefinitely, unless otherwise instructed &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imitating portions of the process of natural selection has led to the production of novel enzyme function. 

By combining elements of protein engineering and directed evolution, researchers open the door to creating enzymes with diverse catalytic functions in a protein scaffold of their choice.

Hak-Sung Kim from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More funding for flying fly robots!</title>
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The National Science Foundation&#160;has a CAREER award that rewards particularly promising young scientists with a 5 year (rather than the standard three year)&#160;research grant. The University of Delaware&#8217;s&#160;&#160;Xinyan Deng has won one to study robotic flies.

&#8230;one of the goals of the research is to study the flight attributes observed in insects and to investigate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More nano product available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a think tank based in Washington DC&#160;did a survey and found that there are more commercially available nanotech products.

Maynard and his co-workers found 212 products that use nanotechnology. This is double the number found by a similar survey carried out last year by EmTech Research, a pro-industry research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychopathic Robots Predicted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting PDF by Roderick Wallace in which he makes a prediction about the uses of the first biomimetic artificial intelligence systems&#8230;to wit that they will be terribly unstable and prone to psychoses.

&#8220;The most likely use of the first generations of conscious machines will be to model the various forms of psychopathology, since we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sensory control systems - Jaws on command</title>
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been funding several labs interested in basic sensory biology.&#160; Their goal is to define a system that will allow remote control of a free swimming shark.&#160; The project has been under way for two years now with the major focus on the olfactory and the electrosensory systems.&#160;&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.biomachinations.com/?p=134</link>
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		<title>Biophotonics - University of Surrey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The word biophotonics deserves a definition page on this blog.&#160; I&#8217;ll get to that presently.&#160; Before I do here is a site that takes a similarly broad view of the field to my own.&#160; The University of Surrey&#8217;s Advanced Technology Institute has a biophotonics initiative that includes the following fields:

* optical molecular motors (+ overview [...]]]></description>
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