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Silk Stretches Drugs’ Shelf Life to New Lengths
A silky solution to the age old question of how to keep drugs viable without refrigeration.
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Silk
It's smooth, slippery, and strong -- but despite the efforts of many researchers, spiders and caterpillars do it best. We'll talk about silk.
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