Silk fibroin has become a prominent material in tissue engineering (TE) over the last 20
years with almost 10,000 published works spanning in all the TE applications, from skeleton …

As a biomaterial, silk presents unique features with a combination of excellent mechanical
properties, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. The biodegradability aspects of silk …

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor. Surgery
followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy remains the standard treatment strategy for …

Early insights into the unique structure and properties of native silk suggested that β-sheet
nanocrystallites in silk would degrade prior to melting when subjected to thermal processing …

Due to the natural biodegradability and biocompatibility, silk fibroin (SF) is one of the ideal
platforms for on‐skin and implantable electronic devices. However, the development of SF …

The combination of optogenetics and electrophysiological recording enables high-precision
bidirectional interactions between neural interfaces and neural circuits, which provides a …

Surgical sutures play an important role across a wide range of medical treatments and a
wide variety exist, differing in strength, size, composition, and performance. Recently …

Silks spun by the arthropods are “ancient” materials historically utilized for fabricating high-
quality textiles. Silks are natural protein-based biomaterials with unique physical and …

As a chronic inflammatory disease, diabetes mellitus creates a proinflammatory
microenvironment around implants, resulting in a high rate of implant loosening or failure in …

Implantable bioelectronic devices, designed for both monitoring and modulating living
organisms, require functional and biological adaptability. Pure silk is innovatively employed …