For the purpose of personalised therapies, a research group has used 3D printing to develop tablets based on different types of starch, and has confirmed that drug release could be tailored by ...

‘Ink’ used to make foods and novel materials by additive manufacturing have been developed by food engineers from modified starch. 3D printing is attractive to food manufacturers for a number of ...

“The main aim of this work was to produce 3D printed starch-based tablets for the tailored delivery of hydrophobic drugs,” said the author of the paper. 3D printing is a technology that ...

Now, researchers report that a small molecule can block a type of common gut bacteria from consuming starch, which slows their growth. The results could offer a way to manipulate the bacteria’s ...

Building tiny sheets and cages from starch particles turns them into super-thickeners that could reduce the calorie content of foods. Starch is often added to foods like soups to make them richer ...

New research reveals that your genetic makeup influences how starch shapes your oral microbiome ... senior author and assistant professor of molecular nutrition. "The takeaway finding here ...

“Native starch exhibits great stiffness due to the strong hydrogen bonding between its molecular chains, resulting in challenges during thermal processing,” explains Xiaoqian Zhang, the first ...

I see that a group of enterprising Italians have 3D printed a car, containing just 49 components, from carbon fibre and thermoplastics. Very clever, I thought and then a colleague asked: “Why isn’t it ...

Computer-generated models published in the journal eLife illustrate how plants might use molecular mathematics to regulate the rate at which they devour starch reserves to provide energy ...