New Nanomaterial from Silk of Gorse Spider Mite has Biomedical Properties
An international team of researchers has developed a new nanomaterial from the silk produced by the
Tetranychus lintearius mite. This nanomaterial has the ability to penetrate human cells without damaging them and, therefore, has "promising biomedical properties".
The
Nature Scientific Reports journal has published an article by an international scientific team led by Miodrag Grbi-, a researcher from the universities of La Rioja (Spain), Western Ontario (Canada) and Belgrade (Serbia), in its latest issue entitled
'The silk of gorse spider mite Tetranychus lintearius represents a novel natural source of nanoparticles and biomaterials'