The beetle's back and the crab's shell owe their toughness to a common compound called chitin that now appears to trigger airway inflammation and possibly asthma, scientists have found. The beetle's ...

Scientists from the University of Havana have used lobster waste to generate chitin and chitosan, two key compounds in biomedicine and agriculture. They used these compounds to produce surgical ...

Royal College of Art graduate Jeongwon Ji has made her own bioplastic from crab shells. Material samples and crab shell pieces Aiming to make a more tactile casing for electronic products, Jeongwon Ji ...

The article appearing in the Aug. 7/14 issue (page 38) titled “Solving the Structure of DNA” is both timely and of great interest. Although major scientific developments that were made possible by the ...

Chitin, the second most abundant natural polysaccharide after cellulose, is a linear polymer of N-acetylglucosamine found in crustacean shells, insect cuticles and fungal cell walls. Through partial ...