A review from Professor Markus Buehler, former postdoc Shengjie Ling and David Kaplan of Tufts University was featured on the cover of the April edition of Nature Reviews: Materials. The paper, entitled “Nanofibrils in nature and […]
A review from Professor Markus Buehler, former postdoc Shengjie Ling and David Kaplan of Tufts University was featured on the cover of the April edition of Nature Reviews: Materials. The paper, entitled “Nanofibrils in nature and […]
New research from Professor Markus Buehler and Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM) shows spider silk can help understand how bones regenerate. The MIT researchers modeled how a cell membrane protein receptor, integrin, folds and […]
[fusion_text]Cambridge Crops, a company inspired by research from Paul M. Cook Career Development Assistant Professor Benedetto Marelli, won first place at the second annual Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize competition for their edible, tasteless coating […]
[fusion_text]When the Chinese first discovered silk, its superior quality and properties were thought so special, it was reserved exclusively for clothing the emperor, his relatives, and dignitaries. And for more than two millennia, the mechanisms of […]