He got wind of Harvard chemist George Whitesides' success in making tiny fluid-handling devices with the same type of rubber used in household caulk.

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Why didn't BBC go to the scientists who advised the cardinal and the WHO and get the real truth - surely there have been electron microscope scans of this type of rubber that would prove definitively whether or not the pores are larger than or smaller than the HIV virus.

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RIBA-II accomplishes this task using newly-developed Smart Rubber sensors (Table 1, Figure 2, 3), the first capacitance-type tactile sensors made entirely of rubber.

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Under the guidance of its founder Jay Keasling, it has been working on a type of isoprenoid (a class of chemicals that include rubber).

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