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Novel Silk-Calcium Phosphate Processing Methods to Fabricate Porous Calcium Phosphate Ceramics for Bone Tissue Engineering
Silk-based injectable ceramic materials have been created. Due to their excellent biocompatibility and mechanical properties, they show great promise as injectable ceramic materials for orthopedic applications.Download a detailed description of the technology hereIntellectual PropertyUS Patent No. 9,925,299 (March 27, 2018)
Published: 6/5/2020   |   Inventor(s): David Kaplan, Stephanie Mcnamara, Tim Jia-Ching Lo
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Category(s): Healthcare, Materials: ceramics
Processing Methods to Form Porous Matrices from Silk Proteins
Researchers at Tufts University have developed a new porous silk biomaterial which has the mechanical integrity and biocompatibility to be a new bone scaffold for orthopedic applications. Download a detailed description of the invention hereIntellectual Property: US Patents 7,842,780 (November 30, 2010); 8,361,617 (January 29, 2013); 9,132,197 (September...
Published: 4/2/2020   |   Inventor(s): David Kaplan, Rina Sears, Lorenz Meinel, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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Category(s): Materials: ceramics, Medical devices