Virginia Tech scientists develop process for creating biocompatible fibers
...esearchers fabricated this natural compound into a sub micron fiber ?100 times smaller than a human hair. "It is the first demonstration that electrostatic spinning, or electrospinning, a polymer processing technique, can be used with a small molecule to produce a fiber. "Clothing fibers such as polyeste...Secret of worm's poison pill box protein could produce new natural insecticide
...ities, found that the protein was formed from four sub units in the shape of a hollow cage or box which is configured to bind well to part of a caterpillar’s gut called "Brush Border Membrane Vesicles" (BBMV). The XptA1 protein seemed to specifically target the BBMV of caterpillars Pieris Brassicae ...