Researchers have developed silk iron microparticles (SIMPs) -- magnetic, biodegradable carriers designed to deliver therapies directly to disease sites like aneurysms or tumors. The particles are ...

At the heart of the process is a stationary phase made of biocompatible silk fibroin sponges, which act as an artificial scaffold to immobilize human cells in a three-dimensional structure.

In their efforts to develop an insect system to produce foreign proteins, they have engineered a baculovirus that fused the gene coding for one of the chains of the silkworm fibroin gene ...