An interview on how advanced techniques can be used to enhance silk fibroin and chitosan for drug delivery applications.

For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics. Now, researchers in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber: to deliver medicines into the body.

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 ...

Researchers took the imaginary scenes from Spider-Man seriously and created the first web-slinging technology in which a fluid material can shoot from a needle, immediately solidify as a string ...

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 ...

Recreating Spider-Man’s super silk To make these superhero-like silk threads, the researchers boiled and washed silk moth cocoons in various solutions until all of its silk fibroin had been isolated ...

In a recent Science Advances article, researchers explored two-dimensional silk fibroin films derived from Bombyx mori silk, highlighting their potential in electronics due to unique structural ...

To build this artificial retina, researchers have developed silk fibroin films with mechanical characteristics similar to Bruch's membrane - the layer of cells that supports the neural retina.

Scientists say they have found a way to keep fruit fresh for longer without refrigeration: cover it in silk. Strawberries and bananas dipped in a solution made up of silk fibroin ripened less ...

Scientists from Donghua University in Shanghai’s College of Materials Science and Engineering have presented a comprehensive and timely review of the uses of silk fibroin as a biomaterial. Their ...