Spider silk key to new bone-fixing composite

The new composite certainly needed to be strong and stiff, yet not so much so that it would inhibit dense bone growth

UConn researchers have created a biodegradable composite made of silk fibers that can be used to repair broken load-bearing bones…

Full text: https://today.uconn.edu/2018/04/spider-silk-key-new-bone-fixing-composite/

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University of Conneticut, 2018-04-19.

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University of Connecticut

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