To fabricate the hydrogel, the research team employed photoinitiated dityrosine cross-linking. Properties of the silk protein put it in the limelight as its stiffness is about 10 times of that of animal’s heart or muscle.
It is expected to be utilized as delivery vehicles and as supporting materials to incubate stem cells inside human bodies.
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