'Biotech violin' outdoes Stradivarius
Monday, September 14, 2009 - 07:49
in Health & Medicine
At the 27th "Osnabrücker Baumpflegetagen," one of Germany`s most important annual conferences on all aspects of forest husbandry, Empa researcher Francis Schwarze`s "biotech violin" dared to go head to head in a blind test against a stradivarius -- and won. A brilliant outcome for the Empa violin, which is made of wood treated with fungus, against the instrument made by the great master himself in 1711.