Doctors testing silk screws and plates for bone fracture repair (DVice)
We're all familiar with how people who have nasty bone fractures will often get steel plates and screws implanted to hold things together. But now researchers from Tufts University and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, are experimenting with screws molded from material produced by silkworms to repair fractures in rats, and they have found that there are several advantages over traditional steel screws.
Silk is far more biocompatible than steel, so the body is more accepting of the additional hardware with a l...
