Synthetic biologists get $1.7 million to engineer world’s strongest biomaterial
Contact for reporters: Anne Manning (970) 491-7099 anne.manning@colostate.edu It’s the most durable biological material you’ve never heard of: sporopollenin. This naturally occurring polymer coats and protects individual grains of plant pollen, and it’s been found in 500 million-year-old sediments. (It’s …