gredients. First, they chop up silkworm cocoons, and then they boil the bits in a salt solution to break down the fibers. "It's like making pasta," Omenetto says. At the end of the entire process, what's left is a mixture of water and fibroin — a versatile silk protein that scientists can form into almo

. 15). "It eventually degrades, and the body has a very low immune response to it," says biomedical engineer Fiorenzo Omenetto. To make the films, Omenetto and his team at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., process silk into its basic protein ingredients. First, they chop up silkworm cocoons, and then

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