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Biophysics and bioengineering

Biophysics and bioengineering

Sonifying science: from an amino acid scale to a spider silk symphony

19 Jan 2022
Taken from the January 2022 issue of Physics World.

Often called the universal language, music may well represent life itself. Having studied a wide range of biomaterials, from amino-acids and viruses to spider-silk, Markus Buehler and Mario Milazzo explain how they have been able to explore new avenues of research by translating living structures into sound

Conceptual image of music staves and proteins
(Courtesy: Alison Tovey/IOP Publishing, adapted from original by Christine Daniloff/MIT)
For thousands of years, sound has been an integral part of the human experience, and in many ways, i

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Markus Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), mbuehler@mit.edu; Mario Milazzo is a researcher working with MIT, University of Antwerp (Belgium) and University of Pisa (Italy), milazzo@mit.edu
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