Biol 210

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  1. shark skin and bio fouling. What does it mean?
  2. And what can it do for the field of science?
  3. Bio fouling is the scientific term for the build up of moss, barnacles,
  4. urchins and other forms of bacteria onto marine animals and structures.
  5. Well, it's not generally harmful for animals.
  6. It can have severe negative effects on system performance in structures.
  7. So what does bio fouling have to do with sharks?
  8. Out of curiosity,
  9. scientists decided to conduct various experiments on sharks to see if they
  10. could figure out why bio fouling occurs with whales and dolphins,
  11. but not with sharks.
  12. They discovered that sharkskin itself was not an antimicrobial surface,
  13. but rather it is just highly adapted to resist the attachments of living organisms.
  14. So how could this affect science and medicine in the future?
  15. A corporation called Shark lit Technologies specifies in research
  16. and replication of sharkskin for scientific purposes.
  17. The corporation was founded by Anthony Brennan.
  18. In one of their most promising experiments,
  19. they went to a hospital and covered multiple
  20. surfaces with the shark skin light coating.
  21. They then spread bacteria onto the coated surfaces to mimic coughing and sneezing.
  22. They discovered that the surface is covered by fake sharkskin
  23. prevented bacterial
  24. bacterial transmission by 97%