While other researchers have already developed composite materials with silk, they have typically just worked with its primary protein or short fibres. Guan, however, has focused on silk fabric woven ...

CLEVELAND—Leading researchers will gather this week at a Case Western Reserve University-led symposium highlighting progress and opportunities in biomedical research and human-performance sciences.

Combining naturally-created silk with polymers is the latest way researchers have devised to help create medical implants that can perform better than current designs while remaining biocompatible and ...

We don’t often think of medicine and engineering as being related concepts, and most of the time, they aren’t. But there’s a point where medicine alone may not be enough to treat a particular ailment ...