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AMSilk announces new insect-derived biosilk project

20/01/2017

Munich-based supplier of synthetic silk biopolymers AMSilk has announced a new project. It is working with research body the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research in Potsdam to make biofibres from a silk protein taken from the green lacewing, using biotechnology to produce the insect-derived protein in large quantities. To protect...

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