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Inspired by Nature: Toward
Paul Alan Cox | Institute for Ethnomedicine | Jackson
ds a Sustainable Future
Hole, Wyoming
Climate Chaange in 2050
Climate Chaange in 2100
Climate Chaange in 2150
Makatea Island, FFrench Polynesia
Læsø Island, Denmaark: seagrass thatch
S th t hSeagrass thatchh l t 300h lasts 300 years
S i l tiSeagrass insulatio C i H llon: Carnegie Hall
Oil spills: is thhere a solution?
Alcanivorax borkumensis :: oil-eating bacteria
Data storage: increaasing need for power
DNA: Ultimatee Data Storage
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DNA: Ultimatte data storage
Yellowstone National Park: Taq Polymerase
93 Nobel Prize93 Nobel Prize
Yellowstone National Park: Taq Polymerase
Velcro: Annual ssales $177 million
Green Fluoreescent Protein
Green Fluorescen
oger Tsien lab, 2006
nt Protein
Roger TsienNobel Prize,2008
Green Fluoreescent Protein
Green Fluoreescent Protein
What can a lizard teach us about medicine?
Gila Monster Saliva: $700 million per year
Gila Monster Saliva: $700 million per year
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Cyanobacteria & Motor Neuron Disease
Yellowstone National Park: cyanobacterial mats
Cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic
BMAA misincorpporates for Serine
L- Serine as a candidate drugg for motor neuron disease?
FDA- approved cliniccal trials have begun.
Linnaeus thought all answeers may be found in nature.
Perhaps he was right.
Dr. James Metcalf Dr. Sandra Banack
Inspired by Nature: Toward
Paul Alan Cox | Institute for Ethnomedicine | Jackson
ds a Sustainable Future
Hole, Wyoming