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This diatom is the sole known organism outside of the fungi to contain rDNA spliceosomal introns.
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).
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.
Rogers envisages loading diatoms with a drug that would then leach out into the blood stream at a rate dependent on the diatom species used.
Nevertheless, diatom shells come in a dazzling array of forms and sizes (Figure 1; Box 1).