![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121010134419im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Rice University Lab Encodes Collagen
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September 25, 2012
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In a discovery with implications for drug design, tissue engineering and the treatment of disease, Rice University researchers have created a program to encode self-assembling collagen proteins.
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