When postdoctoral researcher Wendy Crookes and colleagues at the University of Hawaii-Manoa searched for membrane proteins that allow the immune system of the Hawaiian bobtail squid,
The researchers suggest that such proteins eventually could be engineered for biosensors, molecular devices, and biomaterials, but others note that a long distance exists between elucidating protein sequences and making products. Biochemistry professor Irwin Chaiken of Drexel University in Philadelphia asks, "What is the...