Graduate student Linda Smolka is using high-speed digital video to learn if that theory holds true. The finest violin is a Stradivarius, made some 300 years ago. With her violin-playing machine, graduate student Lily Wang can see the pattern of sound an instrument makes and quantify why one plays better than another. How graduate students play in Hollywood. For keeping cows clear of bacteria, prevention is the best defense.
Molecular biology can help too.
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