The utilization of silk fibroin wound dressing may reduce wound care complications in total joint arthroplasty, according to data presented at Orthopedics Today Hawaii.“It is a mesh that goes on the ...

Silk fibroin and chitosan biomaterials are candidates for biomedical applications due to their biocompatibility and biodegradability. This webinar will review the ability of silk fibroin to ...

In a recent article published in Science Advances, researchers conducted an in-depth study on the development and characterization of two-dimensional silk fibroin films derived from the natural silk ...

For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics, exported around the globe. However, biomedical researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber: to ...

In this interview, industry experts Jennifer Prestipino and Dr. Viviana Posada discuss the unique properties of silk fibroin and chitosan, their biomedical applications, and innovative techniques ...

IN studies of the constitution of proteins, the basic amino-acids are of particular interest. With silk fibroin, for example, the basic amino-acids are the least frequent of the constituent amino-acid ...

IT has been clear from micro-autoradiography that glycine, one of the constituents of silk fibroin, is incorporated into the posterior division of the silk gland in the silkworm 1, though the ...

This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses a high clinically translatable strategy to anti-aging using hyaluronic acid and silk fibroin co-crosslinked hydrogels as dermal ...

To map the initiation site of fibroin gene transcription on cloned genomic fibroin DNA (pFb29), we looked for precursors of fibroin mRNA, first by applying the hybridization mapping method to the RNA ...

A coating made from silk helped preserve strawberries kept for a week at 22 degrees Celsius. The uncoated strawberry on the left did not fare well but the fruit with one type of coating on the right ...