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Chemistry World
July 10, 2012
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Silky solution to storing vaccines and drugs Storing delicate vaccines and antibiotics in freeze-dried silk could eliminate the need for refrigerated storage, reducing transport costs and waste, say US researchers.   |
Technology Research News
December 3, 2003 |
Microneedles give painless shots The smaller the hypodermic needle, the less it hurts when it pierces skin. Researchers demonstrated that an array of 400 microneedles can be used to pierce human skin, and successfully used a similar micro array to deliver insulin to diabetic rats. |
Chemistry World
December 17, 2010
James Mitchell Crow |
Drug delivery: from needles to nanorods? Gold nanorods warmed by beams of infrared light could be the ideal way to deliver drugs through the skin, researchers in Japan have discovered. |
Chemistry World
January 16, 2008
Jonathan Edwards |
Microneedles May Mean an End to Painful Injections Microneedles that could deliver drugs painlessly can be made more quickly and cheaply thanks to a laser polymerisation technique developed by US scientists. |
Managed Care
April 2004
Thomas Morrow |
Transdermal Patches Are More Than Skin Deep After modest beginnings, transdermal patches are now taking advantage of nanotechnology and other novel techniques to improve drug delivery. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Worms' diet the key to coloured silk Scientists in Singapore have found out how to produce coloured silk based on the diet fed to silkworms. |
Chemistry World
April 25, 2013
James Urquhart |
Filler to patch up ancient silk delicates Chinese researchers have found a way to restore and strengthen ancient, fragile silk fabrics using an enzyme-mediated reaction to fill in tiny cracks in the fibers. |
Chemistry World
March 25, 2014
David Bradley |
Silkscreen printing goes nano A team at Tufts University, US, has demonstrated that water can be used as the base for electron-beam lithography if silk is the target material with another acting as the mask for areas onto which the beam must not impinge. |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2009
Nina Notman |
Metal toughens up spider silk Spider silk, already one of the strongest fibres known, can be made even stronger by infusing metals into its protein structure, scientists in Germany say. |
Chemistry World
January 5, 2011
Jon Cartright |
Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments. |
Chemistry World
June 22, 2015
Manisha Lalloo |
'Smart patch' set to deliver for diabetes patients A research team has created patches that release insulin in response to changes in oxygen brought about by high glucose levels and hope this could lead to a smarter, painless way of treating the disease. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 64
David Bradley |
Proteins' Web of Intrigue An investigative look into what makes spider silk so strong. |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Tying up spider silk's loose ends The way spider silk proteins can be stored as a fluid but spun instantly into fibres is all down to their end parts, European scientists have discovered. |
