Scientists have long studied silk for its strength. Now they're using it to shore up bone. A team of bioengineers from Mexico, India and the U.S. created a silk protein-based scaffolding to encourage ...

Silk sericin, a glycoprotein traditionally regarded as a by‐product of silk fibroin extraction, has emerged as a promising biomaterial owing to its unique biological and physicochemical properties.

The journal Materialia has recently published the outcome of a piece of research conducted by a group of researchers comprising several from the Department of Physical Chemistry at the UPV-EHU's ...

WAALRE, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VIVOLTA, the medical electrospinning solutions provider, has signed a long-term partnership with Fibrothelium, a specialist in silk protein biomaterials, to ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2020 -- Spun by spiders and silkworms, silk has mystified human engineers who have yet to figure out how to artificially recreate this tough, fine fiber. But by combining silk, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - New research has demonstrated how the nano-architecture of a silkworm's fiber causes "Anderson localization of light," a discovery that could lead to various innovations and a ...

(Nanowerk News) Think spider silk is strong? Recent work has shown that bagworm silk is superior to spider silk in both strength and flexibility. Building on these findings, a research team at the ...