Silkworm Silk Used to Model Skeletal Muscle (IMAGE)

Utah State University

Silkworm Silk Used to Model Skeletal Muscle

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Silk fibers are wound around an acrylic chassis to produce a three-dimensional cell culture device. Skeletal muscle cells grown on silkworm silk proved to more closely mimic human skeletal muscle than those grown on the usual plastic surface.

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Matt Jensen

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