Designing from Nature’s Template

Search for the Protein Sequence The Office of Naval Research awarded a three year grant to the team at Washington University to investigate ‘layered nano-structures’  like the abalone shell infamous for its strength and resilience. Clement Furlong supervisor to Rich Humbert and leader of Medical Genetics stated ‘Once we sequence the protein we’ll have to …

Why design from nature? Part 4: CREATING

Making the Built Environment Manufacture of paper, plastics, chemicals and metals produce 71% of toxic emissions in the U.S.1 Materials were produced by nature; timber, rock, clay, reeds for thatch, hide, wool, silk, and bone. Then man began to make things and it labeled the times; the Stone age, the Bronze age, the Iron age, …