Silk Solutions: Revealing the Mysteries of Organic Substances to Craft a Better World
Silk Solutions: Revealing the Mysteries of Organic Substances to Craft a Better World Using silk-based technology, Professor Benedetto Marelli is able to assist crops grow and preserve perishable commodities “from lab to fork.” As a child in Milan, Benedetto Marelli enjoyed dissecting objects. He fixed malfunctioning electronics just to get a chance to disassemble and reassemble them. He also had a great desire to have a constructive influence on the world since he was little. When he enrolled at Milan’s Polytechnic University, he decided to major in engineering. According to Marelli, the Paul M. Cook Career Development Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, “engineering seemed like the right fit to fulfil my passions at the intersection of discovering how the world works, together with understanding the rules of nature and harnessing this knowledge to create something new that could positively impact our society.” Explore the World of Biomedical Engineering...