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.
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Intellectual Property:
US Patents 7,842,780 (November 30, 2010); 8,361,617 (January 29, 2013); 9,132,197 (September 15, 2015); 9,993,527 (June 12, 2018); Publication 2019-0008923 (January 10, 2019)