Delaware-based Covation Biomaterials on Wednesday announced that it plans to sell its interest in its Primient Covation ...

In the age-old quest to innovate, nature often reveals its hidden treasures, offering solutions to modern challenges in the most unexpected places. Imagine a world where the sturdy fibers of banana ...

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Immunotherapy has emerged in recent years as a new cancer treatment that is gentler than traditional chemotherapy and causes milder side effects in patients. However, conventional dendritic cell (DC) ...

Silica nanomaterial cuts immunotherapy costs while boosting cancer treatment efficacy by nearly 70% in animal studies.

Packing for outer space? Here’s one thing you won’t want to forget. Northwestern University researchers have synthesized a new form of melanin enriched with selenium. Called selenomelanin, this new ...

A novel biomaterial developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, may help treat commonly overlooked menopausal vaginal changes and discomfort experienced by many women. As many ...

UK startup Pact has raised £9mn in funding and opened a new factory to scale up the “world’s first” sustainable and scalable biomaterial made from collagen — the primary building block of your skin.

Researchers classify biomaterials in several ways: by their origin, how they interact with tissue, and their intrinsic material properties. Natural biomaterials, such as collagen, chitosan, and bone, ...