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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Synthetic Skin From Spider Silk Heals Wounds

golden spider photo
Photo by I'll Never Grow Up via Flickr CC
Researchers have been looking for better alternatives for providing skin grafts to wounds, and it turns out they need look no further than the animal kingdom. Spider silk is legendary for its strength, as well as its possible healing properties. Tissue engineer Hanna Wendt at Medical School Hannover in Germany honed in on this and found that by creating an artificial skin spun from spider silk, we could have an ideal answer for helping heal wounds.

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