The birthday celebrations continue for my Dad. Tonight we hit up @hanksseafood for an amazing night of family and food.
This bouillabaisse did not disappoint. Two nights in a row out to eat is a record for us and not something I tend to promote. But sometimes all you can do is be thankful for the experiences and choose the best options.
UC Berkeley engineer Phillip Messersmith is happy to be learning lessons from a lowly mollusk, with the expectation that the knowledge gained will enable him and fellow physicians to prevent deaths among their youngest patients — those who haven’t been born yet.
Equipped with new funding from the National Institutes of Health and a partnership with a physician known as the “father of fetal surgery,” Messersmith is making better glues for medical procedures inside the body, applying what he and others before him have learned about underwater superglue-making techniques that have been developed and elaborated upon through eons of evolution by mussels, a brainless bivalve.