Oyster, molecular thing without wings: mollusk.
What, is it a molecular thing, or something to do with chemicals?
The occasion was the presentation of winning work in this year's Young Scientist Prize competition, in which researchers from around the world enter their studies about things molecular and smaller.
Today sees the start of Chemistry Week, the Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC's) biennial celebration of all things molecular.
Crystallography, molecular structures, cosmology three things that aren't usually associated with designing a chair or a house, but these scientific subjects are what architects and designers Aranda\Lasch mine to create their modular designs that emulate the infinite.
"While mirror life may look identical to current life," he said, "it is radically different in terms of resistance to viruses, pathogens and enzyme digestion, among other things, because molecular interactions of life are very sensitive to the mirror arrangement of the atoms".
Investors clearly expected better things from Molecular, since they bid the stock up $1 yesterday.
And Cue, a startup building a next-gen health tracker to go way beyond measuring weight and activity to understand your body at the molecular level and measure things like testosterone, fertility and inflammations to deliver personalized recommendations for your health.
Researchers don't know how these pieces of molecular machinery prevent living things from withering, but previous work in plants suggests that the genes produce ultrastable proteins that help form the protective sugar mesh.
Director Tom Frieden warned in a speech last year to the National Press Club about the effects that budget cuts would have on things like molecular detection.
