Sheffield engineers make major breakthrough in developing silk ‘micro-rockets’ that can be used safely in biological environments. By using an innovative 3D inkjet printing method, researchers from Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield have taken the biggest step yet in producing microscopic silk swimming devices that are biodegradable and harmless to a biological system. This means that these devices have the potential to be used in the human body in the future in applications such as drug delivery and locating cancer cells. This new technique allows the … Continue reading New microscopic silk swimming devices can be used safely in biological environments