POSTS TAGGED AS silk

Silk for Nerve Repair

Spider, silkworm silk combined to create new nerve-repairing material
“For the first time, researchers have combined two kinds of silk to [MORE]

Silkworm Proteins for Bioprinting Organs

Wild silkworm species Antheraea assamensis
Collagen is a common ingredient in inks for bioprinting, but in India scientists have shown the possibility [MORE]

Artificial Eardrum from Silk

Clear Drum
The eardrum has two main roles: it transmits sound to the sensory cells in the inner ear, and it [MORE]

Silk Sponges as Implantable Tissue Scaffolding

Quoting from the journal abstract, a team of US and Australian bioengineers report: “We present a silk biomaterial platform with [MORE]

Resorbable Electronic Implant with WiFi Control

Silk-based Resorbable Electronic Devices
Here is a significant first-of-its-kind device: “We present the demonstration of in vivo operation of a subcutaneously [MORE]

Biocompatible, “Transient Electronics”

Biocompatibale Electonics
An integrated silicon chip, encapsulated in silk protein, is what researchers at Tufts University and the University of [MORE]

Silkworms Making Spider Silk

Silkworm
With its high tinsel strength and elasticity, spider silk could be a useful material in medicine-not only for sutures, [MORE]

Silk Sensors

Silk Sensor
First, you devise an implantable biosensor made of liquid silk and micropatterned gold.  The silk can conform to [MORE]

Silk Biochips

Silk Worm Cocoon
University of Sydney physicist Peter Domachuk has purified a silk protein, fibroin, and determined that it can [MORE]