The sophisticated, elegant protein-polymers designed by nature can serve as inspiration to
redesign and biomanufacture protein-based materials using synthetic biology. Historically …

There is a long history of protein-based biomaterials, starting from proteins purified from
natural sources (collagen, elastin, and silk are prominent examples). The rise of genetic …

The hierarchical structure-dependent function of self-assembling proteins regulates the
biochemical and mechanical functions of cells, tissues, and organs. These multi-scale …

Amino acids are the core building blocks of nature's mechanically robust proteins. Their
innate ability to self-assemble into well-ordered secondary structures, such as the α-helix …

The challenges of biomedical materials development have been recently reaffirmed by the
controversy over the failures of silicone-based implants. The body has a number of …

Biomaterials, derived from high-performance structural proteins such as elastin, spidroin,
and resilin, exhibit broad applications in high-tech fields from wearable devices …

Protein-based materials are finding new uses and applications after millennia of impacting
the daily life of humans. Some of the earliest uses of protein-based materials are still evident …

Through billions of years of evolution nature has created and refined structural proteins for a
wide variety of specific purposes. Amino acid sequences and their associated folding …

An extensive range of biomaterials, frequently derived from extracellular matrix (ECM)
proteins or other natural biopolymers, have been developed for biomedical applications …

Chemical and biological researchers are making rapid progress in the design and synthesis
of non-natural oligomers and polymers that emulate the properties of natural proteins …