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Thursday, October 13, 2005

Insect's Amazing 'Rubber' Made in Lab - Yahoo! News: "A special type of protein enables insects to chirp, fly, and hop. Now, scientists have produced this same protein in the lab and say it could one day be used to repair human arteries.
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The protein, called resilin, is like rubber. It can be squished up, storing energy for a quick release, and it remains extremely functional over an insect's lifetime. "

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