Chennai: Silk has long been worn on the skin. Now, city scientists have found a way to make it help the skin heal too.A ...

According to Juthamas Ratanavaraporn, director of Chulalongkorn University’s biomedical engineering research center, silk fibroin — one of the natural proteins that gives silk its incredible ...

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 ...

Viviana Posada discuss the unique properties of silk fibroin and chitosan, their biomedical applications, and innovative ...

These sticky fibers, created at the Tufts University Silklab, come from silk moth cocoons, which are boiled in solution and broken down into their building block proteins called fibroin.