Open AccessCell culture's spider silk road
Author(s) -
Jeffrey M. Perkel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
biotechniques/biotechniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.617
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1940-9818
pISSN - 0736-6205
DOI - 10.2144/000114175
Subject(s) - spider silk , spider , silk , surprise , biology , zoology , engineering , communication , sociology , telecommunications
A number of synthetic and natural materials have been tried in cell culture and tissue engineering applications in recent years. Now Jeffrey Perkel takes a look at one new culture component that might surprise you—spider silk.