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In fact, the microscopic lenses that coat the armor of this particular sea creature, known as the brittlestar, are so perfectly designed, some argue they rival any man-made technologies.
"I believe the performance of its lenses is really superior to anything we've been able to create before," said Joanna Aizenberg of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., who authored a study about the complex optical system of the brittlestar in this week's issue of Nature. "It is so perfect, it will be difficult to imitate in the laboratory."

Aizenberg believes studying the brittlestar's compound eye could help scientists develop better light-based data processing and optical displays, according to Roy Sambles, a physicist at the University of Exeter in Exeter, Great Britain.

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/brittlestar010822.html

 

How true! A friend of mine who is heavily involved in Genomics told me that, Genomics is nothing compared to what is ahead - Proteomics. We need the next generation super computers and new software to handle that science.

When you think you are close to the answer, the answer moves another level - not in the same ball park!... more like to another country!

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