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Article: Artificial gill. (Aquanautics Corp. introduces Longlife, oxygen-binding molecule carriers, now being used in food preservation)
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- Popular Science
- Article date:
- April 1, 1989
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ARTIFICIAL GILL
Scientists at Aquanautics Corp., a small biochemical research company, brew their own coffee in a machine outside the main laboratory. The coffee station is one of my first stops on a recent visit. While filling my cup, I notice a bar graph pinned to the wall. Below the bars, which record the opacity of various "carrier fluids," are names. Bruce is one. "What are these carrier fluids?" I ask Dr. Bruce Zenner, a biochemist and Aquanautic's chief scientist. "In this case, they're coffee," he says.
Zenner, who attends "board meetings" at a nearby windsurfing area is nonetheless a busy man who can appreciate a chemical like caffeine, ...