MATERIALS SCIENCE: Multitasking in Tissues and Materials

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Science 28 March 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5871, pp. 1767 - 1768
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155122

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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Multitasking in Tissues and Materials

Phillip B. Messersmith

Insights into the role played by a modified amino acid residue in structural biological tissues are helping to develop biomimetic materials.

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Institute for Bionanotechnology in Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. E-mail: philm{at}northwestern.edu

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