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For example if we want to understand the genetics of how silk is produced we must first understand how silk worms evolved over time
and a protein derived from silk called fibroin layering them together just like in nature.
which was developed as part of the Royal College of Art's Innovation Design Engineering course in collaboration with Tufts University silk lab,
is made from chloroplasts that are suspended in a silk protein matrix. The chloroplasts are derived from plant cells,
and the silk protein is extracted from natural silk fibers. Like the leaves of a plant, the material requires only exposure to sunlight and a small amount of water to produce oxygen."
"Silk Leaf is the first man-made biological leaf, "claimed Melchiorri.""It's very light, low energy-consuming,
the Silk Leaf could also be used as building material to produce clean air for buildings. Melchiorri has developed even some simple home uses for the material,
and other structures that are lined with Silk Leaf material. You can view a video presentation of the incredible Silk Leaf below w
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The scale is small, a little smaller than the diameter of spider silk. Scaling this research up in the future may mean that you could replace the gas in your cars and generators with hydrogen greener option,
The study examined the confined water on the outer surfaces of one dimensional nano-structured materials including spider silk and cactus thorn,
Research results of bio-inspired spider silk and cactus thorn showed the confined water collection on these one dimensional nanostructures was helpful in solving the shortage of freshwater resources.
#Vest And Scarf Made From Spider Silk This silk scarf and vest have a nice drape
because they're made of super-strong transgenic spider silk. Functional and good-looking! Our favorite.
The clothes were woven from silk produced by silkworms with a spider gene engineered into them.
The resulting hybrid material is made up of less than 1 percent spider proteins yet it's 53 percent tougher than regular silk according to the research team five scientists from Japan's National Institute of Agrobiological
Scientists have known long spider-silk proteins are exceptionally strong. Dragline silk the stuff spiders use to make the spokes of their webs
and to dangle creepily from ceilings is five times stronger than an equal-sized thread of steel would be.
Researchers have thought about using spider silk for everything from surgical thread to bulletproof vests. There's no reason to make a cute scarf from spider silk of course
but the Japanese team members wanted to demonstrate they could harvest their product and feed it into the same machines silk factories use.
Why not get the silk directly from spiders instead of it putting it through a silkworm first?
Spiders don't make a lot of silk at once and they're cannibalistic so it's hard to maintain a spider farm.
Silkworms on the other hand have been domesticated over thousands of years. They produce voluminous silk cocoons and they're easy to raise indoors.
A silkworm that makes spider proteins could be a gentle little biological silk factory spinning out a super-strong product.
In recent years a number of labs have created genetically engineered silkworms that spin part-spider silk.
However this is the first time we've seen anybody produce and harvest enough of the material to weave it into something wearable.
and they performed strength tests on the raw silk. Eventually they made enough engineered silkworms that they were ready to kill the worms in their cocoons harvest the silk dye the silk threads
and knit the threads into cloth just like silk factories do. The researchers are now planning to try to raise their genetically engineered silkworms at commercial farms the Japan Times reports.
They published their scientific work last week in the journal PLOS One e
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#Thai university develops bulletproof vest made of silk BANGKOK: A team of university researchers in Thailand has developed the world's first bulletproof vest made from natural silk,
a media report said on Tuesday. The vest can withstand. 38 and. 22 calibre bullets fired from a distance of three metres, Panomkorn Khwakhong,
which has a reputation for quality silk clothing. Panomkorn said the silk vest is also able to take repeated hits without deteriorating.
His team planned to continue developing the vest and make a version that can withstand automatic weapons fire,
#Silk could be new'green'material for next-generation batteries Lithium-ion batteries have enabled many of today electronics, from portable gadgets to electric cars.
Now scientists report in the journal ACS Nano("Hierarchical Porous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanosheets Derived from Silk for Ultrahigh-Capacity Battery Anodes and Supercapacitors")the development of a new,
reenway to boost the performance of these batteries with a material derived from silk. Chuanbao Cao and colleagues note that carbon is a key component in commercial Li-ion energy storage devices including batteries and supercapacitors.
The researchers found a way to process natural silk to create carbon-based nanosheets that could potentially be used in energy storage devices.
Silk fibroin is used as the dissolvable film because it has high biocompatibility, and is known a biomaterial used in implantable devices."
"We investigated preparation of a silk base scaffold for a microneedle, quantitatively analyzed needle stiffness,
#3d bone marrow made from silk biomaterials successfully generates platelets (Nanowerk News) Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging
The team knew from their previous work with silk protein scaffolds that silk is a very biocompatible material that is amenable to many manipulations to customize it for a specific use,
They formed silk scaffolds of different thicknesses (ranging from 2 to 5 micrometers) and stiffness combined with growth factors,
the researchers attached the silk scaffolds to a plastic framework to guide the growth of cells.
Next, endothelial primary cells (EPCS) were grown on one side of the silk scaffold and megakaryocytes were seeded on the other side.
the researchers formed silk sponges around porous silk microtubes. The wall thickness of the microtubes was kept below 10 micrometers,
in addition to the EPCS, allowed the resulting silk structure to support the formation of functioning platelets.
Each step of the tissue engineered silk bone marrow development furthered the amount of successful platelet production
ultrafast laser technology to make high-resolution, 3-D structures in silk protein hydrogels. The laser-based micropatterning represents a new approach to customized engineering of tissue and biomedical implants.
femtosecond laser to generate scalable, high-resolution 3-D voids within silk protein hydrogel, a soft,
Further, the exceptional clarity of the transparent silk gels enabled the laser's photons to be absorbed nearly 1 cm below the surface of the gel-more than 10 times deeper than with other materials
guide cell growth and create an artificial vasculature within an already densely seeded silk hydrogel,
the ability to distinguish corduroy versus silk, or a cold glass of water from a hot cup of coffee.
Hallisey used silk fibres to stabilise the chemicals on card stock, allowing them to sit around at room temperature for up to three weeks
She then used these silk-stabilised chemicals to design a paper-based test that requires only a serum sample (the clear part of the blood after the red blood cells have been removed) and water to run.
Silk fibroin is used as the dissolvable film because it has high biocompatibility, and is known a biomaterial used in implantable devices."
"We investigated preparation of a silk base scaffold for a microneedle, quantitatively analyzed needle stiffness,
#Silk-based functional inks put biosensor data on your fingertips Although we've seen"bio-inks"that allow sensors to be drawn directly on a person's skin
Researchers at Tufts University have developed now silk-based inks containing bacteria-sensing agents that can withstand the rigors of inkjet printing,
The breakthrough comes courtesy of a purified silk protein called fibroin which is strong enough to stabilize various types of compounds, such as antibodies, enzymes, nanoparticles, antibiotics and growth factors, by acting as a protective"cocoon"."
if we were able to develop an inkjet-printable silk solution, we would have a universal building block to generate multiple functional printed formats that could lead to a wide variety of applications in which inks remain active over time,
The researchers doped the silk ink base with different bio-compounds to create a set of functional,
inkjet-printable silk inks and tested them. Their creations included: an ink with bacterial-sensing polydiacetylenes (PDAS),
#tronger than steelclothes from yeast-engineered silk Bolt Threads, a Bay Area startup, which announced a new $40 million round funding on Thursday,
The company has developed a synthetic, rogrammablealternative to larval-or arachnid-produced silk. Engineered using proteins derived from yeast,
Still, Silicon valley is betting that Bolt silk could supplant petroleum-based textiles such as polyester, Lycra,
Kim and Chau said. y producing silk in the lab, Bolt Threads doesn have to rely on thousands of silkworms, a species struggling due to climate change.
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#Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran Abstract: Iranian researchers produced biocompatible and biodegradable nanocomposite scaffolds by using a type of natural silk with no cellular toxicity observed in the experiments.
Silk fibroin is a natural polymer produced by various insects. This substance has applications in the production of tissue engineering scaffolds as a biological material due to its appropriate mechanical properties and computability.
It can also be used in the production of artificial skin or other medical stuff. In this research, nanocomposite scaffold was made of silk fibroin,
chitosan and alumina through freeze drying method. The produced scaffold has a homogenous structure with pore sizes of 135-148 micrometers."
Based on the results, the interaction between the organic and inorganic phases increases mechanical properties and water sorption of silk fibroin/chitosan/alumina scaffold.
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#Leti Announces Launch of First European Nanomedicine Characterisation Laboratory: Project Combines Expertise of 9 Partners in 8 Countries to Foster Nanomedicine Innovation and Facilitate Regulatory Approval CEA-Leti today announced the launch of the European Nano-Characterisation Laboratory (EU
and made of very soft and flexible silk, the brain tissue is able to comfortably rearrange itself around it."
#Inkjet inks made of silk could yield smart bandages, bacteria-sensing gloves and more Inkjet printing is one of the most immediate and accessible forms of printing technology currently available, according to the researchers,
Enter purified silk protein, or fibroin, which offers intrinsic strength and protective properties that make it well-suited for a range of biomedical and optoelectronic applications.
if we were able to develop an inkjet-printable silk solution, we would have a universal building block to generate multiple functional printed formats that could lead to a wide variety of applications in which inks remain active over time,
functional silk inks doped with a variety of components: The researchers, who included collaborators from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, foresee wide potential for future investigation and application of this technology.
Omenetto and Kaplan are pioneers in the use of silk as an alternative to plastics. Omenetto's 2011 TED Talk called silk a"new old material"that could have a profound impact in many technical fields.
This work was supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (N14-13-1-0596) and the AFOSR (FA9550-14-1-0015
Each strand is as soft as silk and as flexible as brain tissue itself. Free space makes up 95%of the mesh
The mesh is malleable,"soft as silk, "and spacious, allowing it to naturally incorporate into the brain
ntil now we thought that spider silk was the strongest biological material because of its super-strength
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