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Drug delivery material made of synthetic silkworm silk. (Polymers/Ceramics).
Advanced Materials & Processes, February, 2002
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Synthetic silkworm silk that could expand by three to six times in size while remaining strong and stiff, and also could be biodegradable and biocompatible, has reportedly been developed by researchers at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. The material could serve as a wound-healing bandage or as a drug-delivery mechanism.
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In the 1950s, Nobel laureate Linus Pauling deduced the basic structure of silkworm silk. Within its crystalline structure is a regular protein-folding pattern, induced by amino adds, in which the molecular chain falls back and forth on itself, ...
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