School of Engineering

Building better silk

A group of researchers at Tufts and MIT, including Professor David Kaplan and postdoctoral fellows Chunmei Li and Wenwen Huang, developed a way to build better silk in a new Nature Communications paper.
A photograph shows regenerated helical silk fibers colored by Rhodamine dyes, under UV light.

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Biomedical Engineering

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