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In another approach, Hildebrand is purifying the proteins present in diatom shells.
Nevertheless, diatom shells come in a dazzling array of forms and sizes (Figure 1; Box 1).
‘When a diatom divides, each daughter cell makes a new half shell’, explains Tiffany.
Since then, diatom diversity has literally exploded; no one is sure how many living species there are—probably about 100,000—or why there are so many different types.
Once the details of silicon metabolism have been revealed, the stage should be set for nanotechnologists to harness diatom proteins for the manufacture of nanodevices.