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This is where the diatom sequencing project at the United States Department of the Environment's Joint Genome Initiative (JGI) at Walnut Creek, California, comes in.
Richard Gordon, Professor of Radiology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, somewhat accidentally laid the foundations of ‘diatom nanotechnology’ in 1988 when he was invited to give a lecture at an engineering conference.
(http://genome.jgi-psf.org/diatom/).
‘When a diatom divides, each daughter cell makes a new half shell’, explains Tiffany.
Nevertheless, diatom shells come in a dazzling array of forms and sizes (Figure 1; Box 1).