By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaA recent study published in PNAS looked at how Vibrio cholerae interacts with chitin, focusing on ...

The chitinous scales of this butterfly’s wings (Chrysiridia) form gratings that create metallic colors. A hornet’s compound eye is made up of thousands of lenses composed of chitin.

In mushrooms, chitin takes the form of fine bundles, each of which is made up of sheets that are layered in parallel but run in opposite directions. In α-chitin, the form most common in ...

leaving behind a purified form of chitin. This selectivity is due to the specific interactions between the TDES components and the biomass constituents. By precisely adjusting the proportions of ...

Our ability to understand and use chitin in its native form is critical to enable new engineering applications and develop them within a paradigm of ecological integration and low energy ...

While it is highly unlikely that chitin-producing organisms currently live on Mars, they could easily be part of an artificial ecosystem created on the planet. Fernandez’s team created their new ...

The chitin in insects and crustaceans helps make their hard, protective outer shell. Chitosan is a form of chitin normally used as a food additive and in supplements. As a type of insoluble fiber ...

A team of scientists from the Singapore University of Technology and Design discovered that, using simple chemistry, the organic polymer chitin—contained in the exoskeletons of insects and ...

The researchers knew that the mouth and eggshells of parasitic worms are chitin-rich and that infection by the worms triggers an inflammatory response very similar to the kind that occurs in asthma ...

Chitinous exoskeleton that has been expertly refined into a rigid material that can be used in place of more typical animal bones. In Nightingale, Chitinous Bone is considered a Component which ...