Van Dyken and his team explored gastric ILC2 responses to chitin in mice. To investigate these functions, Van Dyken and his team fed mice either standard food with cellulose, a similar and more common ...

Researchers from the University of Wuhan and Guangxi University produced the fibrous foam by combining cellulose fibres from cotton and the tough biopolymer chitin, which forms a squid's skeleton.

Cellulose is the most abundant material in ... materials that may mined for nanomaterials include silk, collagen, chitin, chitosan and polylactic acid. Recently, much of the emphasis in ...