Biomaterials World
This is a class of polymer networks known for being able to swell with large amounts of water without dissolving.
Hydrogels
What is the name of the official journal of Society for Biomaterials?
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
This is the year Texas A&M University first opened its doors to students.
1876
This is the SI unit of electric charge?
Coulomb
What material is the Statue of Liberty made of?
Copper
This is the name of the temperature at which a shape-memory polymer switches between its rigid and flexible states.
Glass Transition Temperature (Tg)
What is the name for the international conference hosted by SFB every four years?
World Biomaterials Congress
What is the name of the solemn campus tradition held on the first Tuesday of the month when an Aggie has died?
Silver Taps
What term is used to describe the fact that genetic information is transferred in one direction starting from DNA to RNA to protein?
The central dogma of Biology
What is the name of the imaginary line at 0° longitude on Earth?
The Prime meridian or the Greenwich meridian
This natural protein is the major structural component of tendons, ligaments, skin, and much of the extracellular matrix.
Collagen
This is the year that SFB was founded
1974
This is the chant that is sung by Texas A&M students at the end of football games.
Aggie War Hymn
In a tensile test, this material property is calculated as the slope of the initial linear-elastic portion of the stress–strain curve.
Young's modulus
This is the only country in the world that has 3 capital cities
South Africa
This is the name of the class of materials that achieve anti-fouling properties through both positive and negative charges on their surface.
Zwitterionic Materials
Clemson University
Who inspired the 12th Man tradition?
E. King Gill
This technique directly quantifies specific RNA transcripts after reverse transcription and amplification
qRT-PCR or PCR
This famous historic trade route is credited with connecting Europe to Asia since 200 BCE.
The Silk Road
This is a multinucleated cell that results from macrophages fusion as an inflammatory response to some implanted materials.
Foreign Body Giant Cells
This person famously challenged the classic definition of biocompatibility at his talk at a World Biomaterials Congress
Buddy Ratner
This former Texas governor became president of Texas A&M in 1891 and is honored by a famous statue on which students commonly leave pennies.
Lawrence Sullivan Ross (Sully)
This scientist is credited with the discovery of radium and other advances in radioactivity and was the first female to win a Nobel prize
Marie Curie
This 1215 English document limited the power of the monarch and became an important symbol in the development of constitutional government.
Magna Carta