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Example sentences for: diatom

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, a pennate diatom’, explains Bowler.
‘Whether we use those proteins inside the diatom or in test tubes remains to be seen, but one way or another, diatoms are harbouring a secret that engineers need to learn about’, says Sussman.
It might also be possible to use diatom shells as delivery vehicles for drugs, suggests chemical engineer Tony Rogers, an assistant professor at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan, United States).
genes is important in silicon metabolism, Sussman is using microarrays to investigate how silicon concentrations affect gene expression patterns in the diatom.
(http://genome.jgi-psf.org/diatom/).