Editors:
- Latest in molecular biology description of silk protein and nucleotide basis
- Advances in research on both spider and insect silks are included
- New applications of silk products, especially to Biomaterials
Part of the book series: Biologically-Inspired Systems (BISY, volume 5)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is a snapshot of the current state of the art of research and development on the properties and characteristics of silk and their use in medicine and industry. The field encompasses backyard silk production from ancient time to industrial methods in the modern era and includes an example of efforts to maintain silk production on Madagascar. Once revered as worth its weight in gold, silk has captured the imagination from its mythical origins onwards. The latest methods in molecular biology have opened new descriptions of the underlying properties of silk. Advances in technological innovation have created silk production by microbes as the latest breakthrough in the saga of silk research and development. The application of silk to biomaterials is now very active on the basis of excellent properties of silks including recombinant silks for biomaterials and the accumulated structural information.
Editors and Affiliations
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Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Japan
Tetsuo Asakura
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Entomology, University California - Riverside, Riverside, USA
Thomas Miller
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biotechnology of Silk
Editors: Tetsuo Asakura, Thomas Miller
Series Title: Biologically-Inspired Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7119-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7118-5Published: 05 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0229-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7119-2Published: 21 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-0593
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0607
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 272
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entomology, Biotechnology, Structural Materials, Biomaterials, Polymer Sciences, Nanotechnology